¹⁶ `And to what shall I liken this generation? it is like little children in market-places, sitting and calling to their comrades,

³¹ And the Lord said, `To what, then, shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

³² they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!

³³ `For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon;

³⁴ the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

³⁵ and the wisdom was justified from all her children.'

¹³ What do I testify `to' thee, what do I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What do I equal to thee, and I comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For great as a sea `is' thy breach, Who doth give healing to thee?

³⁴ `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

³⁶ verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

³⁴ Verily I say to you, this generation may not pass away till all these may come to pass.

³⁰ And he said, `To what may we liken the reign of God, or in what simile may we compare it?

¹⁸ And he said, `To what is the reign of God like? and to what shall I liken it?