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What comparison am I to make of the men of this generation? what are they like?
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They are like children who are seated in the market-place, crying out to one another, and saying, We made music for you, but you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow, but you were not sad.
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For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit.
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The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners.
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But wisdom is judged to be right by all her children.
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And one of the Pharisees made a request that he would take a meal with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house and took his seat at the table.
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And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume,
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And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them.
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Now when the Pharisee in whose house he was saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he was a prophet, would be conscious what sort of woman this is who has put her hands on him, that she is a sinner.
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And Jesus, answering, said, Simon, I have something to say to you. And he said, Master, say on.
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And he said, Two men were in debt to a certain man of business: one had a debt of five hundred pence, and the other of fifty.