Woe to you Pharisees! you love the front bench in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplaces.
"Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, they are fond of getting saluted in the market-places, of securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets;
I have written to the church; only, Diotrephes, who likes to take the lead among them, repudiates me.
never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,
Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;
But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplace, who call to their playmates,