Matthew 11:16-24 - An Unresponsive Generation

¹⁶ But to what can I compare this present age? It is like children sitting about in the bazaars and calling out to their playmates,

¹⁷ " 'We have played the flute for you, and you would not dance! We have wailed and you would not beat your breasts!'

¹⁸ For when John came, he neither ate nor drank, and people said, 'He has a demon!' ¹⁹ Now that the Son of Man has come, he does eat and drink, and people say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drinker, the companion of tax-collectors and irreligious people!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions!"

²⁰ Then he began to reproach the towns in which his numerous wonders had been done, because they did not repent. ²¹ "Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago! ²² But I tell you, Tyre and Sidon will fare better on the Day of Judgment than you will! ²³ And you, Capernaum! Are you to be exalted to the skies? You will go down among the dead! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have stood until today. ²⁴ But I tell you that the land of Sodom will fare better on the Day of Judgment than you will!"