Children in the Marketplace

This generation is like children calling — 'We played the flute for you, and you didn't dance. We mourned for you, and you didn't lament.'

¹⁶“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions¹⁷and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’¹⁸For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’¹⁹The Ben Adam came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”