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18 For John came neither eating nor drinking [with others], and they say, He has a demon!

19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking [with others], and they say, Behold, a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and [[a]especially wicked] sinners! Yet wisdom is justified and vindicated by what she does (her deeds) and by [b]her children.

20 Then He began to censure and reproach the cities in which most of His mighty works had been performed, because they did not repent [and their hearts were not changed].

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 11:19 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.
  2. Matthew 11:19 Many manuscripts read “children” here, as in Luke 7:35.

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