28. I tell you, among those born of women, no one is greater than John; yet the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”
29. (All the people who listened, including the tax collectors, and who were baptized with the baptism of John, acknowledged the righteousness of God;
30. but the Pharisees and scholars of the law, who were not baptized by him, rejected the plan of God for themselves.)
31. “Then to what shall I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?
32. They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another,‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance.We sang a dirge, but you did not weep.’
33. For John the Baptist came neither eating food nor drinking wine, and you said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’
34. The Son of Man came eating and drinking and you said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’
35. But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
36. A Pharisee invited him to dine with him, and he entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table.
37. Now there was a sinful woman in the city who learned that he was at table in the house of the Pharisee. Bringing an alabaster flask of ointment,