They say to the seers, "Do not see," and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy the truth to us. Tell us flattering things. Prophesy illusions.

Therefore the Holy One of Israel says: "Because you have rejected this message and have trusted in oppression and deceit, and have depended on them,

You hate instruction and turn your back on My words.

Because they hated knowledge, didn't choose to fear the LORD,

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?

Who can I speak to and give such a warning that they will listen? Look, their ear is uncircumcised, so they cannot pay attention. See, the word of the LORD has become contemptible to them-- they find no pleasure in it.

"This, then, is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

But this was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet, who said: Lord, who has believed our message? And who has the arm of the Lord been revealed to?

If anyone hears My words and doesn't keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

The one who rejects Me and doesn't accept My sayings has this as his judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

Who has believed what we have heard? And who has the arm of the LORD been revealed to?

Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself like a little weaned child with its mother; I am like a little child.

At that time Jesus said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to infants.

When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that He did and the children in the temple complex cheering, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant

and said to Him, "Do You hear what these [children] are saying?" "Yes," Jesus told them. "Have you never read: You have prepared praise from the mouths of children and nursing infants?"

I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."

Like newborn infants, desire the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it in [your] salvation,