Luke 7:24–35

²⁴And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak to the multitudes concerning John. What went ye out into the desert to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

²⁵But what went you out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Behold they that are in costly apparel and live delicately are in the houses of kings.

²⁶But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and more than a prophet.

²⁷This is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

²⁸For I say to you: Amongst those that are born of women, there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist. But he that is the lesser in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

²⁹And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with John’s baptism.

³⁰But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him.

³¹And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? And to what are they like?

³²They are like to children sitting in the marketplace and speaking one to another and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept.

³³For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine. And you say: He hath a devil.

³⁴The Son of man is come eating and drinking. And you say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and sinners.

³⁵And wisdom is justified by all her children.