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“To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?
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They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another: ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’
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For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
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The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’