31 To what then shall I compare the men of the generation this? and to what are they like?

32 Like they are boys those in a market sitting, and calling to one another, and saying: We have played the flute for you and not you have danced; we have mourned for you, and not you have wept.

33 Has come for John the dipper, neither bread eating, nor wine drinking; and you say: A demon he has.

34 Has come the son of the man, eating and drinking; and you say: Lo, a man glutton and winedrinker, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners.

35 And is justified the wisdom by the children of herself all.

36 Asked and one him of the Pharisees, that he might eat with him; and entering into the house of the Pharisee, he reclined.

37 And lo, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, knowing that he reclines in the house of the Pharisee, having brought an alabaster box of balsam,