Matthew 11:16-24 - An Unresponsive Generation

¹⁶ But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the markets, and calling to their companions,

¹⁷ and saying: "We have played on the pipe for you, and you have not danced; we have wailed for you, and you have not lamented.

¹⁸ For John came, neither eating nor drinking, and they say: He has a demon. ¹⁹ The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and they say: Behold, a glutton, and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and sinners. Yet wisdom is vindicated by her children.

²⁰ Then he began to reprove the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. ²¹ Alas for thee, Chorazin! alas for thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works which have been clone in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sack cloth and ashes. ²² But I say to you, It will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon, in the day of judgment, than for you. ²³ And thou, Capernaum, that hast been exalted to heaven, shalt be brought down to hades. For if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodom, it would have remained till this day. ²⁴ But I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, in the day of judgment, than for thee.