Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 9:48

48 And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name, receiveth me, and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth him that sent me, for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.

See the Notes on Matth. 18.1. Mar. 9.33. This Paragraph sheweth what need there was of the preceeding Discourse, that our Saviour should prepare them with a preinforming them about his Suffering; that when they saw it their Faith in him, as the Messiah, might not fail, for they were possessed with the common Notion of their Country, that the Messias should deliver them from the Temporal Pressures which they were under, and Exercise a Civil or Military secular Power, this made them think of places of Priority, and greatness, about which we often find them disputing Our Lord to bring them off that false notion of him, and his Kingdom, he taketh a Child, and setteth him before them, and saith, Whosoever shall receive this Child, &c. what Luke saith, must be Interpreted, by what we had before in Matthew and Mark. This Child, that is, one that is as humble as this Child, &c. see the Notes before mentioned.