Luke 7:28-35

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²⁸ “Let me tell you this,” he went on. “Nobody greater than John has ever been born of women. But the one who is least in God’s kingdom is greater than he is.”

²⁹ When all the people, and the tax-collectors, heard that, they praised God for his faithfulness; they had been baptized with John’s baptism. ³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers, who had not been baptized by John, rejected God’s plan for them.

³¹ “What picture can I use,” Jesus continued, “for the people of this generation? What are they like? ³² They’re like children sitting in the square and calling this old riddle to each other:

³³ “When John the Baptist came, he didn’t eat bread or drink wine, and you say, ‘He’s got a demon!’ ³⁴ When the son of man came, eating and drinking, you say, ‘Look! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!’ ³⁵ Well, wisdom is justified by all her children.”