Luke 7:32

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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!”

Cross References

Proverbs 17:16

Why should fools have money for an education when they refuse to learn?

Zechariah 8:5

while boys and girls play in the streets.

Matthew 20:3

About nine that morning, the man saw some other people standing in the market with nothing to do.

Luke 7:31

Jesus went on to say: What are you people like? What kind of people are you?

Luke 7:33

John the Baptist did not go around eating and drinking, and you said, “John has a demon in him!”