Matthew 11:17

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‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, 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 held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days.

1 Kings 1:40

And all the people went up following him, playing on pipes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth quaked at their noise.

Isaiah 30:29

You shall have a song as in the night when a holy festival is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

Jeremiah 31:4

Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall take your tambourines, and go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

Matthew 11:16

“But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another,

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 wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Matthew 9:23

When Jesus came to the leader's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,

Luke 15:25

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

Luke 23:27

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

Luke 7:32

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.’

Luke 8:52

They were all weeping and wailing for her; but he said, “Do not weep; for she is not dead but sleeping.”