28. I say to you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."
29. When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they acknowledged God's justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John.
30. But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God's purpose for themselves, not having been baptized by John.
31. "To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like?
32. They are like children who sit in the market place and call to one another, and they say, '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, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
35. Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children."