Add parallel Print Page Options

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.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Matthew 11:19 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.
  2. Matthew 11:19 Many manuscripts read “children” here, as in Luke 7:35.

Bible Gateway Recommends