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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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"But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another,
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 flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, 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, "Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds."
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