31 And the Lord said, Therefore to whom shall I say men of this gener-ation like, and to whom be they like?
32 They be like to children sitting in the chapping, and speaking together, and saying, We have sung to you with pipes, and ye have not danced; we have made mourning [or lamentation], and ye have not wept.
33 For John Baptist came, neither eating bread, nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a fiend.
34 Man’s Son came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo! a man a devourer [or a glutton], and drinking wine, a friend of publicans, and of sinful men.
35 And wisdom is justified of [all] her sons.
36 But one of the Pharisees prayed Jesus, that he should eat with him. And he entered into the house of the Pharisee, and sat at the meat.
37 And lo! a sinful woman, that was in the city, as she knew, that Jesus sat at [the] meat in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster box of ointment;