Matthew 11:7–19

⁷And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: What went you out into the desert to see? a reed shaken with the wind?

⁸But what went you out to see? a man clothed in soft garments? Behold they that are clothed in soft garments, are in the houses of kings.

⁹But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea I tell you, and more than a prophet.

¹⁰For this is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before my face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

¹¹Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born of women a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is the lesser in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

¹²And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away.

¹³For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John:

¹⁴And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come.

¹⁵He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

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.