Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha CEBA
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16 "To what will I compare this generation? It is like a child sitting in the marketplaces calling out to others,
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“To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
17 ‘We played the flute for you and you didn't dance. We sang a funeral song and you didn't mourn.'
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“ ‘We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.'
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For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
19 Yet the Human One came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.' But wisdom is proved to be right by her works."
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The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.”
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