“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them I will compare to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Then Jesus said, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God? Or what parable can we use to describe it?
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the will of God for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)
They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call out to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance; we sang a lament for you, but you did not weep.’