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"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates,
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'We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.'
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For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon';
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the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.