30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law despised the counsel of God concerning themselves, by not being baptized by him.
31 Then the Lord said: 'Therefore, to what shall I compare the men of this generation? And to what are they similar?
32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace, talking with one another, and saying: 'We sang to you, and you did not dance. We lamented, and you did not weep.'
33 For John the Baptist came, neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'
34 The Son of man came, eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a voracious man and a drinker of wine, a friend of tax collectors and of sinners.'
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