31 And the Lord said, Matt. 11:16"To what then shall I liken the men of this generation, and what are they like?32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, saying:
‘We played the flute for you,
And you did not dance;
We mourned to you,
And you did not weep.’
33 For Matt. 3:1John the Baptist came (Matt. 3:4); Luke 1:15neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’34 The Son of Man has come Luke 15:2eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’35 Matt. 11:19But wisdom is justified by all her children."
A Sinful Woman Forgiven
36 Matt. 26:6; Mark 14:3; John 11:2Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to eat. 37 And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil,