Luke 7:27–36 · BSB
7:27
This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’
7:28
I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John, yet even the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”
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7:29
All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.
7:30
But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.
7:31
“To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?
7:32
They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another: ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’
7:33
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
7:34
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
7:35
But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
7:36
Then one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him, and He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.
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