The Lord said, "But to
what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the
market places and calling to their playmates,
'We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not
mourn.'
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a
demon';
the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a
glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet
wisdom is justified by her deeds."
Then he began to upbraid the cities where most of his mighty works
had been done, because they did not repent.
