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Matthew 11:17

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11:17‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance;26

we wailed in mourning,27 yet you did not weep.’

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  1. 26 ‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance …’ The children of this generation were making the complaint (see vv. 18–19) that others were not playing the game according to the way they played the music. John and Jesus did not follow “their tune.” Jesus’ complaint was that this generation wanted things their way, not God’s.
  2. 27 The verb ἐθρηνήσαμεν (ethrēnēsamen) refers to the loud wailing and lamenting used to mourn the dead in public in 1st century Jewish culture.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“ ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;

we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“ ‘We played the pipe for you,

and you did not dance;

we sang a dirge,

and you did not mourn.’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

We played the flute for you,

but you didn’t dance;

we sang a lament,

but you didn’t mourn!

NLTNew Living Translation

‘We played wedding songs,

and you didn’t dance,

so we played funeral songs,

and you didn’t mourn.’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

saying,

‘We played the flute for you and you did not dance;

we sang a lament and you did not mourn.’

KJV 1900King James Version

And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.