15. Let the person who has ears, hear.
16. "To what will I compare this generation? It is like a child sitting in the marketplaces calling out to others,
17. ‘We played the flute for you and you didn’t dance. We sang a funeral song and you didn’t mourn.’
18. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
19. Yet the Human One came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved to be right by her works."
20. Then he began to scold the cities where he had done his greatest miracles because they didn’t change their hearts and lives.