Luke 7:32

New American Bible - revised edition

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.’

Cross References

Proverbs 17:16

Of what use is money in the hands of fools when they have no heart to acquire wisdom?

Zechariah 8:5

The city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.

Matthew 20:3

Going out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

Luke 7:31

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

Luke 7:33

For John the Baptist came neither eating food nor drinking wine, and you said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’