Matthew 11:17

Free Bible Version

‘We played the flute for you and you didn't dance; we sang sad songs and you didn't cry.’

Cross References

Genesis 50:10

When they got to the threshing floor of Atad, on the other side of the Jordan, they wept loudly in sorrow. Joseph held a seven-day ceremony of mourning for his father there.

1 Kings 1:40

Everyone followed him, playing flutes and celebrating so happily that the sound shook the earth.

Isaiah 30:29

But you will have a song to sing like you do on the night of a holy festival. You will celebrate in happiness like those who play pipes as they go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

Jeremiah 31:4

I'm going to rebuild you, and it will happen. You will be rebuilt, Virgin Israel. You will pick up your tambourines again and run outside to dance with joy.

Matthew 11:16

What shall I compare this generation to? It's like children sitting in the marketplaces shouting to each other,

Matthew 11:18

John didn't come feasting and drinking, so people say, ‘He's devil-possessed!’

Matthew 9:15

“Do wedding guests mourn while the bridegroom is with them?” Jesus responded. “But the time is coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 9:23

Jesus arrived at the official's house. He saw the flute-players and the crowd that was weeping loudly.

Luke 15:25

Now the older son was working out in the fields. As he walked towards the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 23:27

A large crowd followed him, along with women who were mourning and lamenting him.

Luke 7:32

They're like children sitting in the market who tell one another, ‘We played the flute for you but you didn't dance; we sang sad songs but you didn't cry.’

Luke 8:52

All the people there were crying and mourning for her. “Don't cry,” Jesus told them. “She's not dead, she's just sleeping.”