But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplace,
MEM. To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea. Who will cure you?
Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.
who, calling out to their companions, say: 'We played music for you, and you did not dance. We lamented, and you did not mourn.'
Progeny of vipers, how are you able to speak good things while you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Amen I say to you, all these things shall fall upon this generation.
and greetings in the marketplace, and to be called Master by men.
Amen I say to you, that this lineage shall not pass away, until all these things have been done.
And he said to them in his doctrine: "Beware of the scribes, who prefer to walk in long robes and to be greeted in the marketplace,
And he said: "To what should we compare the kingdom of God? Or to what parable should we compare it?
Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the first seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the marketplace.
And so he said: "To what is the kingdom of God similar, and to what figure shall I compare it?