An Unresponsive Generation

16 “To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to other children:

17 We played the flute for you,
but you didn’t dance;
we sang a lament,
but you didn’t mourn![a]

18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 11:17 Or beat your chests in grief

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