10. This is the one it is written about:Look, I am sending My messenger ahead of You; he will prepare Your way before You.
11. “I assure you: Among those born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has appeared, but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12. From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been suffering violence, and the violent have been seizing it by force.
13. For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John;
14. if you’re willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who is to come.
15. Anyone who has ears should listen!
16. “To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:
17. We played the flute for you,but you didn’t dance;we sang a lament,but you didn’t mourn!
18. For John did not come eating or drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon! ’
19. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! ’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”
20. Then He proceeded to denounce the towns where most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent:
21. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago!
22. But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
23. And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today.
24. But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
25. At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to infants.
26. Yes, Father, because this was Your good pleasure.
27. All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal Him.