29. (When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,
30. but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)
31. “To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?
32. They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’
33. For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’
34. The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
35. Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.”
36. One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.
37. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment,
38. and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.