12. From the days of John the Immerser until now, the kingdom of heaven is treated with violence, and the violent grasp hold of it.
13. For all the prophets and the Torah prophesied until the time of John.
14. And if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.
15. He who has ears, let him hear!
16. “But to what shall I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call to one other, saying,
17. ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance. We wailed, but 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, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”
20. Then Yeshua began to denounce the towns where most of His miracles had happened, because they did not turn from their sins.
21. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have turned long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
22. Nevertheless I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the Day of Judgment than for you.