Matthew 11:17

New English Translation

‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

Cross References

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.

1 Kings 1:40

All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake.

Isaiah 30:29

You will sing as you do in the evening when you are celebrating a festival. You will be happy like one who plays a flute as he goes to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock who shelters Israel.

Jeremiah 31:4

I will rebuild you, my dear children Israel, so that you will once again be built up. Once again you will take up the tambourine and join in the happy throng of dancers.

Matthew 11:16

“To what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

Matthew 11:18

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

Matthew 9:15

Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot mourn while the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 9:23

When Jesus entered the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the disorderly crowd,

Luke 15:25

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

Luke 23:27

A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him.

Luke 7:32

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.’

Luke 8:52

Now they were all wailing and mourning for her, but he said, “Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep.”