Matthew 11:17

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

Cross References

Genesis 50:10

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond [west of] the Jordan, and there they mourned with a great lamentation and extreme demonstrations of sorrow [according to Egyptian custom]; and [Joseph] made a mourning for his father seven days.

1 Kings 1:40

All the people followed him; they played on pipes and rejoiced greatly, so that the earth [resounded] with the joyful sound.

Isaiah 30:29

You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart as when one marches in procession with a flute to go to the temple on the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

Jeremiah 31:4

Again I will build you and you will be built, O Virgin Israel! You will again be adorned with your timbrels [small one-headed drums] and go forth in the dancing [chorus] of those who make merry. [Isa. 37:22; Jer. 18:13.]

Matthew 11:16

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

Matthew 11:18

For John came neither eating nor drinking [with others], and they say, He has a demon!

Matthew 9:15

And Jesus replied to them, Can the wedding guests mourn while the bridegroom is still with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 9:23

And when Jesus came to the ruler's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making an uproar and din,

Luke 15:25

But his older son was in the field; and as he returned and came near the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 23:27

And there accompanied [Jesus] a great multitude of the people, [including] women who bewailed and lamented Him.

Luke 7:32

They are like little children sitting in the marketplace, calling to one another and saying, We piped to you [playing wedding], and you did not dance; we sang dirges and wailed [playing funeral], and you did not weep.

Luke 8:52

And all were weeping for and bewailing her; but He said, Do not weep, for she is not dead but sleeping.