Luke 7:29-31

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁹ (And all the people who heard this, including the tax-collectors, acknowledged the justice of God,^[a] because they had been baptized with John’s baptism. ³⁰ But by refusing to be baptized by him, the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God’s purpose for themselves.)

³¹ ‘To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?