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18 For John the Baptist doesn’t even drink wine and often goes without food, and you say, ‘He’s crazy.’[a] 19 And I, the Messiah,[b] feast and drink, and you complain that I am ‘a glutton and a drinking man, and hang around with the worst sort of sinners!’ But brilliant men like you can justify your every inconsistency!”

20 Then he began to pour out his denunciations against the cities where he had done most of his miracles, because they hadn’t turned to God.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 11:18 He’s crazy, literally, “He has a demon.”
  2. Matthew 11:19 the Messiah, literally, “the Son of Man.” brilliant men like you can justify your every inconsistency, literally, “wisdom is justified by her children.”

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