13 For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John;
14 if you’re willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who is to come.
15 Anyone who has ears should listen!
16 “To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:
17 We played the flute for you,but you didn’t dance;we sang a lament,but you didn’t mourn!
18 For John did not come eating or drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon! ’
19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! ’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”