World English Bible
Luke 7:32
“They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.”
Verse in context — Luke 7
30
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
31
To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?
32
They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.
33
For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking 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!
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