11 Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen one greater than John the Baptist. But the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12 But from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven is treated violently, and the violent claim it.
13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John,
14 and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah, the one who is going to come.
15 The one who has ears, let him hear!
16 “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,
17 saying, ‘We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not mourn.’