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 and calling to their playmates,
17. “‘We played the flute 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, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”
20. Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.
21. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.