Matthew 11:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’

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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.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned.

Matthew 11:17 Cross References

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation, and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days.

1 Kings 1:40

And all the people went up following him, playing on pipes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth quaked at their noise.

Isaiah 30:29

You shall have a song as in the night when a holy festival is kept and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

Jeremiah 31:4

Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with your tambourines and go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

Matthew 11:16

“But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another,

Matthew 11:18

“For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’;

Matthew 9:15

And Jesus said to them, “The wedding attendants cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 9:23

When Jesus came to the leader’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,

Luke 15:25

“Now his elder son was in the field, and as he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 23:27

A great number of the people followed him, and among them were women who were beating their breasts and wailing for him.

Luke 7:32

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep.’

Luke 8:52

Everyone was weeping and grieving for her, but he said, “Do not cry, for she is not dead but sleeping.”