29. (Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.
30. However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)
31. “To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?
32. They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet 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!’