Matthew 11:17

James Moffatt - New Testament

'We piped to you and you would not dance, we lamented and you would not beat your breasts.'

Cross References

Matthew 9:15

Jesus said to them, "Can friends at a wedding mourn so long as the bride groom is beside them? A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 9:23

Now when Jesus reached the official's house and saw the flute-players and the din the crowd were making,

Luke 15:25

Now his elder son was out in the field, and as he came near the house he heard music and dancing;

Matthew 11:16

But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplace, who call to their playmates,

Matthew 11:18

For John has come neither eating nor drinking, and men say, 'He has a devil';

Luke 7:32

Like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, 'We piped to you and you would not dance, we lamented and you would not weep.'

Luke 8:52

Everyone was weeping and bewailing her, but he said, "Stop weeping; she is not dead but asleep."

Luke 23:27

He was followed by a large multitude of the people and also of women who beat their breasts and lamented him;