Mark 9:36. And taking him in his arms. Peculiar to Mark. The child seems not to have been brought in, but to have been a member of the household. Tradition says it was the martyr Ignatius, of Antioch, who was therefore called Christophorus (borne by Christ). The little one may have been the child of one of the Apostles, perhaps of Peter, whose house this may have occurred.

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Old Testament