Matthew 11:17 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁷ ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance. We wailed, but 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.'

Matthew 11:17 Cross References

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of the bramble on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there—a very great and solemn lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.

1 Kings 1:40

All the people went up after him, while the people were playing on flutes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the ground shook at their noise.

Isaiah 30:29

You will have songs as in the night when you keep a holy festival, and gladness of heart like one walking with the flute to go to the mountain of Adonai, to the Rock of Israel.

Jeremiah 31:4

Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria— planters will plant and use them.

Matthew 11:16

“But to what shall I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call to one other, saying,

Matthew 11:18

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

Matthew 9:15

And Yeshua said to them, “The guests of the bridegroom cannot mourn while the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 9:23

When Yeshua came into the synagogue leader’s house and saw the flute players and the noisy crowd wailing,

Luke 15:25

“Now his older son was out in the field. And as he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 23:27

Now a great multitude of people was following Him, including women who were mourning and singing dirges for Him.

Luke 7:32

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to each other, saying, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We sang a dirge, and you didn’t weep.’

Luke 8:52

And everyone was weeping and lamenting her; but He said, “Don’t weep, for she didn’t die but is sleeping.”