Matthew 11:17

New American Standard Bible 2020

and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a song of mourning, and you did not mourn.’

Cross References

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they mourned there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed seven days of mourning for his father.

1 Kings 1:40

And all the people went up after him, and the people were playing on flutes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth shook at their noise.

Isaiah 30:29

You will have songs as in the night when you keep the festival, And gladness of heart as when one marches to the sound of the flute, To go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

Jeremiah 31:4

“I will build you again and you will be rebuilt, Virgin of Israel! You will take up your tambourines again, And go out to the dances of the revelers.

Matthew 11:16

“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call out to the other children,

Matthew 11:18

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’

Matthew 9:15

And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the groom cannot mourn as long as the groom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 9:23

When Jesus came into the official’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd in noisy disorder,

Luke 15:25

“Now his older son was in the field, and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 23:27

Now following Him was a large crowd of the people, and of women who were mourning and grieving for Him.

Luke 7:32

They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another, and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a song of mourning, and you did not weep.’

Luke 8:52

Now they were all weeping and mourning for her; but He said, “Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep.”