^{31 Ref} And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

^{32 Ref} They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

^{33 Ref} For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.

^{34 Ref} The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

^{35 Ref} But wisdom is justified of all her children.

^{36 Ref} And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.

^{37 Ref} And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

^{38 Ref} And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.