New English Translation

Matthew 11:15-19 New English Translation (NET)

15. The one who has ears had better listen!

16. “To what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

17. ‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

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 drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”