They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: “ ‘We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry.’
Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom, when they are not able to understand it?
The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”
“About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
Jesus went on to say, “To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’