Matthew 11:16–30

¹⁶But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place.

¹⁷Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned.

¹⁸For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: He hath a devil.

¹⁹The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.

²⁰Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein were done the most of his miracles, for that they had not done penance.

²¹Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you, they had long ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes.

²²But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment, than for you.

²³And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou shalt go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this day.

²⁴But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee.

²⁵At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones.

²⁶Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.

²⁷All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.

²⁸Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you.

²⁹Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls.

³⁰For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.