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.
21. ‘Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
22. But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
23. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.