13. For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.
14. And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come.
15. Whoever has ears, let them hear.
16. ‘To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the market-places and calling out to others:
17. ‘ “We played the pipe for you,and you did not dance;we sang a dirge,and you did not mourn.”
18. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, “He has a demon.”
19. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, “Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.” But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.’
20. Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.