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31 “What can I say about such men?” Jesus asked. “With what shall I compare them? 32 They are like a group of children who complain to their friends, ‘You don’t like it if we play “wedding” and you don’t like it if we play “funeral”!’[a] 33 For John the Baptist used to go without food and never took a drop of liquor all his life, and you said, ‘He must be crazy!’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 7:32 You don’t like it if we play “wedding” and you don’t like it if we play “funeral,” literally, “We played the flute for you and you didn’t dance; we sang a dirge and you didn’t weep.”
  2. Luke 7:33 He must be crazy, literally, “He has a demon.”

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