31Jesus went on to say, “To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?
32They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other:“ ‘We played the pipe for you,and you did not dance;we sang a dirge,and you did not cry.’33For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’34The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’