They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to each other, saying, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We sang a dirge, and you didn’t weep.’
Of what use is money in the hand of a fool since he has no intention of acquiring wisdom?
The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing in the marketplace, idle.
“So then, to what shall I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?
“For John the Immerser has come not eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’