Luke 7:32

New English Translation

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

Cross References

Proverbs 17:16

Of what use is money in the hand of a fool, since he has no intention of acquiring wisdom?

Zechariah 8:5

And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing.

Matthew 20:3

When it was about nine o’clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work.

Luke 7:31

“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

Luke 7:33

For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’