14. If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.
15. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
16. “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions
17. and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’
18. For Yochanan came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
19. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”
20. Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.