Matthew 21:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise for yourself’?”

Cross References

Psalm 8:2

Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants;

Matthew 12:3

He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

Matthew 19:4

He answered, “Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’

Matthew 22:31

And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God,

Mark 13:17

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days!

Mark 2:25

And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food,

Luke 21:23

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people;