The original context is the Bible, an incident that is recorded in Matthew chapter 19, Mark chapter 10, and Luke chapter The local Jews bring a bunch of little rugrats to see Jesus, and his Apostles try to run interference, figuring that the last thing the big boss wants is to deal with small tykes.
A tenant at sufferance is simply someone who does not have a current lease, a person renting month to month. Our experience as renters has been that landlords offer the legally required lease for the first year, then continue to collect the rent without offering to renew the lease. On a tangential note, I read an Ann Landers column a decade or more ago in which the letter-writer bemoaned the decline in parenting skills among the hoi polloi these days.
Jesus understood this to be a trap from satan, who had tempted Christ in the same ways in the wilderness Lk Not only did Jesus make time to spend with children in order to bless them, he said that to them belongs the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus constantly turned their worldly notions of king and kingdom over on its head, causing many to turn back from him.
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