30 but the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected the purpose of God for themselves, because they had not been baptized by him.)
31 “To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?
32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, who say, ‘We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not weep.’
33 For John the Baptist has come not eating bread or 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 a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
35 And wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
36 Now one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he entered into the house of the Pharisee and reclined at the table.