Matthew 11:16-24 - An Unresponsive Generation

¹⁶ "But to what can I compare the leaders of this age? They are like little children sitting in the market places and calling to their fellows in the game,

¹⁷ "'We played the wedding march for you, but you did not dance. We sang the funeral dirge, but you did not beat your breasts.'

¹⁸ For John came neither eating nor drinking with others, and yet they said, 'He has a demon.' ¹⁹ The Son of Man came eating and drinking with others, and they say, 'Just look at Him! A glutton and a wine-drinker, a chum of tax-collectors and notorious sinners!' And yet wisdom is vindicated by her doings!"

²⁰ Then He began to censure the cities in which His many, many wonder-works had been done, because they did not repent. ²¹ "A curse on you, Chorazin! A curse on you, Bethsaida! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes. ²² Moreover, I tell you, on the day of judgment the punishment will be lighter for Tyre and Sidon than for you! ²³ And you, Capernaum, are you to be exalted to heaven? No, you belong to the regions of the dead! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued until today. ²⁴ But I tell you, on the day of judgment the punishment will be lighter for the land of Sodom than for you!"