Jesus went on to say: What are you people like? What kind of people are you?
Zion, how can I comfort you? How great is your pain? Lovely city of Jerusalem, how can I heal your wounds, gaping as wide as the sea?
Anyone who hears and obeys these teachings of mine is like a wise person who built a house on solid rock.
Finally, Jesus said: What is God's kingdom like? What story can I use to explain it?
But the Pharisees and the experts in the Law of Moses refused to obey God and be baptized by John.
You are like children sitting in the market and shouting to each other, “We played the flute, but you would not dance! We sang a funeral song, but you would not cry!”