Luke 7:31

New American Bible - revised edition

“Then to what shall I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?

Cross References

Lamentations 2:13

To what can I compare you—to what can I liken you— O daughter Jerusalem? What example can I give in order to comfort you, virgin daughter Zion? For your breach is vast as the sea; who could heal you?

Matthew 7:24

“Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.

Mark 4:30

He said, “To what shall we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it?

Luke 7:30

but the Pharisees and scholars of the law, who were not baptized by him, rejected the plan of God for themselves.)

Luke 7:32

They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance. We sang a dirge, but you did not weep.’