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31‘What comparison, then, can I find for the people of this generation? What are they like?32They are like children shouting to one another while they sit in the market place: We played the pipes for you, and you wouldn’t dance; we sang dirges, and you wouldn’t cry.33‘For John the Baptist has come, not eating bread, not drinking wine, and you say, “He is possessed.”34The Son of man has come, eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.”35Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.’
The New Jerusalem Bible: Reader’s Edition, (New York: Doubleday.) 1990.