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for I say to you, a greater prophet, among those born of women, than John the Baptist there is not; but the least in the reign of God is greater than he.'
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And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,
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but the Pharisees, and the lawyers, the counsel of God did put away for themselves, not having been baptized by him.
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And the Lord said, `To what, then, shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
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they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!
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`For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon;
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the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;
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and the wisdom was justified from all her children.'
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And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat),
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and lo, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having known that he reclineth (at meat) in the house of the Pharisee, having provided an alabaster box of ointment,
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and having stood behind, beside his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with the tears, and with the hairs of her head she was wiping, and was kissing his feet, and was anointing with the ointment.