Matthew 11:16

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like little children sitting in the marketplaces who call to their playmates,

Cross References

Lamentations 2:13

What [example of suffering in the past] is sufficient for me to remind you for your [comfort]? To what shall I liken you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? With what shall I compare you, that I may comfort you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your ruin is as measureless as the sea! Who can heal you? [Lam. 1:12; Dan. 9:12.]

Matthew 11:15

He who has ears to hear, let him be listening and let him consider and perceive and comprehend by hearing.

Matthew 11:17

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.

Matthew 12:34

You offspring of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil (wicked)? For out of the fullness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 23:36

Truly I declare to you, all these [evil, calamitous times] will come upon this generation. [II Chron. 36:15, 16.]

Matthew 23:7

And to be greeted with honor in the marketplaces and to have people call them rabbi.

Matthew 24:34

Truly I tell you, this generation (the whole multitude of people living at the same time, in a definite, given period) will not pass away till all these things taken together take place.

Mark 12:38

And in [the course of] His teaching, He said, Beware of the scribes, who like to go around in long robes and [to get] greetings in the marketplaces [public forums],

Mark 4:30

And He said, With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use to illustrate and explain it?

Luke 11:43

Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and [you love] to be greeted and bowed down to in the [public] marketplaces.

Luke 13:18

This led Him to say, What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?