31 "To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to each other:

We played the flute for you,

but you didn’t dance;

we sang a lament,

but you didn’t weep!

33 For John the Baptist did not come eating bread or drinking wine,* 7:33 Lk 1:15and you say, ‘He has a demon! ’ 34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! ’* 7:34 Mt 9:10–11; Lk 15:2; 19:735 Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children."

36 Then one of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.  * 7:36 Lk 11:37; 14:137 And a woman in the town who was a sinner found out that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house.  * 7:37–39 Mt 26:6–13; Mk 14:3–9; Jn 12:1–8 She brought an alabaster jar of perfume