is adroitly § g chosen since the game of ‘funerals’ recalls the stern Baptist while the merrier game suggests the less unbending conduct of Jesus; cf. 9:10–15. Divine wisdom, effecting the design of salvation through both John and Jesus, is vindicated by its result (‘works’ WV; not ‘children’ DV—probably a harmonization with Lk 7:35). Its effect is to demonstrate the insincerity of the opposition. The same message was delivered by John and Jesus, each using a different approach; the rejection of