NOTES for Mar 10:11-16
Anyone who has ever entered a church when children are present at the service will understand the disciples' desire to somehow support the rapidly collapsing order. That may need to be done. But the Lord is indignant with the disciples and demands that they let the children come to Him because, as He says, to such belongs the Kingdom of Heaven. This means that drawing near to Christ is determined only by one's relationship with Him Himself, and not by human reasons. The Apostle Paul, in rebuking partiality in early Christian communities, repeats the same thought again.
And here we see an important personal feature of Jesus Christ. Any ordinary person, after saying, "let the children come..." would have continued the thought and prescribed bringing people to him in a certain order: the elderly, women, the sick in descending order of disability groups, and so on; that is, he would have formulated a commandment. Jesus never does this. He always addresses His word personally to His listeners. In this case He tells the disciples that no one will enter the Kingdom unless he receives it like a child. If this were about an ordinary person, we would say that this is character. Perhaps we may say that this is character, a feature of the personality of the God-man.