Matthew 11:17

English Standard Version 2016

“‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

Cross References

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 sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

Matthew 9:15

And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Jeremiah 31:4

Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

Matthew 9:23

And when Jesus came to the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,

1 Kings 1:40

And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.

Luke 15:25

“Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

Matthew 11:16

“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates,

Matthew 11:18

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

Luke 7:32

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’

Luke 8:52

And all were weeping and mourning for her, but he said, “Do not weep, for she is not dead but sleeping.”

Luke 23:27

And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him.