Matthew 11:16–19

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!C

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 vindicatedD by her deeds.”E