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:

17 We played the flute for you,

but you didn’t dance;

we sang a lament,

but you didn’t mourn!E

18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’e 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard,f a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’g Yet wisdom is vindicatedF by her deeds.”G

20 Then he proceeded to denounce the towns where most of his miracles were done, because they did not repent: