Matthew 11:16-24 - An Unresponsive Generation
16 But to what shall I compare the present generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-places and calling out to their playmates--
17 'We have played the flute for you, but you have not danced; We have wailed, but you have not mourned.'
18 For, when John came, neither eating nor drinking, men said 'He has a demon in him'; 19 And now that the Son of Man has come, eating and drinking, they are saying 'Here is a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and outcasts!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions."
20 Then Jesus began to reproach the towns in which most of his miracles had been done, because they had not repented: 21 "Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For, if the miracles which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 Yet, I tell you, the doom of Tyre and Sidon will be more bearable in the 'Day of Judgment' than yours. 23 And you, Capernaum! Will you 'exalt yourself to Heaven'? 'You shall go down to the Place of Death.' For, if the miracles which have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been standing to this day. 24 Yet, I tell you, the doom of Sodom will be more bearable in the 'Day of Judgment' than yours."