Luke 7:32

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Cross References

Proverbs 17:16

Why should fools have a price in hand to buy wisdom, when they have no mind to learn?

Zechariah 8:5

And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

Matthew 20:3

When he went out about nine o'clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace;

Luke 7:31

“To what then will 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’;