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Matthew 11:16-19
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Matthew 11:16-19
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
16 But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like little children sitting in the marketplaces who call to their playmates,
17 We piped to you [playing wedding], and you did not dance; we wailed dirges [playing funeral], and you did not mourn and beat your breasts and weep aloud.
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking [with others], and they say, He has a demon!
19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking [with others], and they say, Behold, a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and [[a]especially wicked] sinners! Yet wisdom is justified and vindicated by what she does (her deeds) and by [b]her children.
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- Matthew 11:19 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.
- Matthew 11:19 Many manuscripts read “children” here, as in Luke 7:35.
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