Then were there brought] Mark 10:13. Luke 18. 15.
and pray] This shews the great desire the parents had of the spirituall good of their children.
the disciples rebuked them] Not the children, but those that brought them, Mark 10:13. They thought it a thing troublesome to Christ, and unfit for him, to meddle with children, who could not be taught, for want of understanding, and needed no healing by his miracles.