Matthew 11:17 - Plain English Version

¹⁷ ‘We played happy music for you, but you didn’t dance. So we sang a sad song, but you didn’t cry. No matter what we do, you say we are wrong.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ We piped to you [playing wedding], and you did not dance; we wailed dirges [playing funeral], and you did not mourn and beat your breasts and weep aloud.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ and say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not mourn.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ ‘We played the flute for you and you didn’t dance. We sang a funeral song and you didn’t mourn.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ who, calling out to their companions, say: 'We played music for you, and you did not dance. We lamented, and you did not mourn.'

Matthew 11:17 Referencias Cruzadas

Luke 15:25

While all that was happening, the oldest son was working out in the garden, and he didn’t know what was going on. Then later, he knocked off work, and he started walking home. He got near to the house, and then he heard a lot of music, and he heard people dancing and having a good time.

Genesis 50:10

After a while, Joseph and his mob got to the place called Atad, near the Jordan River. There was a place there with flat ground, where farmers sometimes sorted their plants. Joseph and his mob stopped there, and they cried loudly for Joseph’s father. Joseph and his mob cried for 7 days, and they did other things to show that they were very sad.

Matthew 11:16

Then Jesus said, “Now I’ll talk about you people that are alive today and I’ll tell you what you are like. You are like kids that are playing in the street. Some kids say to the other kids,

Matthew 11:18

Those kids are a picture of you mob. You are just like those kids. You rubbish God’s people no matter what they do. You see, John the Baptiser didn’t go to parties and eat lots of good food, and he didn’t drink wine. But you rubbished him and said, ‘He’s got a bad spirit living inside him.’

Luke 23:27

A big mob of people followed Jesus. There were a lot of women among them. They were really sad. They were crying really loud, and they were hitting themselves.