Matthew 11:16-19

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An Unresponsive Generation

¹⁶“To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to other children:

¹⁷We played the flute for you,
but you didn’t dance;
we sang a lament,
but you didn’t mourn!^[a]

¹⁸For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’^(A) ¹⁹The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard,^(B) a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’^(C) Yet wisdom is vindicated^[b] by her deeds.”^[c]

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11:17 Or beat your chests in grief
11:19 Or declared right
11:19 Other mss read children

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