Matthew 11:16–30

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!^C

¹⁸For 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 vindicated^D by her deeds.”^E

²⁰Then he proceeded to denounce the towns where most of his miracles were done, because they did not repent: ²¹“Woe to you, Chorazin!^h Woe to you, Bethsaida!ⁱ For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon,^j they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago. ²²But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment^k than for you. ²³And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will go down to Hades.^l For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today. ²⁴But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”

THE SON GIVES KNOWLEDGE AND REST

²⁵At that time Jesus said,^m “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.^{n 26}Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.^{F 27}All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires^G to reveal him.^o

²⁸“Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.^{p 29}Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,^q because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.^{r 30}For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”