“But to what shall I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call to one other, saying,
How can I admonish you? To what can I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, so that I might console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea! Who can heal you?
He who has ears, let him hear!
‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance. We wailed, but you did not mourn.’
You brood of vipers! How can you who are evil say anything good? For from the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
Amen, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.”
greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called rabbi by men.
Amen, I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things happen.
In His teaching He said, “Watch out for the Torah scholars, who like to walk around in long robes. They like greetings in the marketplaces,
Yeshua also said, “How should we picture the kingdom of God? Or by what story shall we present it?
Woe to you Pharisees, for you love the best seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.
So Yeshua was saying, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?