A Great School

From Matthew Henry’s Family Religion:

[Jesus] is the great Prophet who was promised to the fathers (Deut. 18:15), and in the fullness of time, ‘he came from God, a teacher’ (John 3:2). He taught a while, in person, and he still teaches by his word and Spirit: he has (if I may so speak) set up a great school, and he calls upon all ‘to learn of him’. By baptism, we are entered into that school. And (by the way) if parents commonly enter their little children at what school they please, before they are able to choose for themselves, why may they not enter them into Christ’s school; who is the teacher of hearts, and can instill his instructions into the soul, earlier than we are aware of? Christ teaches the rudiments (Heb. 5:12), and those who say that he will not teach little ones, reproach our Master, as if he were the worse for going to heaven; for on earth he invited little children to him (Matt. 19:14).