16 and said to him: “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them: “Yes. Did YOU never read+ this, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have furnished praise’?”+

21 In that very hour he became overjoyed+ in the holy spirit and said: “I publicly praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have carefully hidden these things from wise+ and intellectual ones, and have revealed them to babes. Yes, O Father, because to do thus came to be the way approved by you.

13 Now when they beheld the outspokenness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were men unlettered and ordinary,+ they got to wondering. And they began to recognize about them that they used to be with Jesus;+

27 but God chose the foolish things of the world,+ that he might put the wise men to shame; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put the strong things to shame;+