Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

But This Generation Rejects Both The One Preparing And He Who Came

³¹ “To what then will I liken the people of this generation, and to what are they like? ³² They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, who say ‘We played the flute for you and you did not dance. We lamented^[a] and you did not weep’. ³³ For John the Baptist has come not eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say ‘He has a demon’. ³⁴ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say ‘Behold— a man who is a glutton and drunkard^[b], a friend of tax-collectors and sinners’. ³⁵ And wisdom was vindicated^[c] by all her children”.