28. I tell you,” Jesus added, “John is greater than anyone who has ever lived. But the one who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than John.”
29. All the people heard him; they and especially the tax collectors were the ones who had obeyed God's righteous demands and had been baptized by John.
30. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law rejected God's purpose for themselves and refused to be baptized by John.
31. Jesus continued, “Now to what can I compare the people of this day? What are they like?
32. They are like children sitting in the market place. One group shouts to the other, ‘We played wedding music for you, but you wouldn't dance! We sang funeral songs, but you wouldn't cry!’