Luke 7:28–36

²⁸“For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he.”↗

²⁹When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.↗

³⁰But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.↗

³¹“To what then should I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?↗

³²They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’↗

³³For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’↗

³⁴The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’↗

³⁵Wisdom is justified by all her children.”↗

³⁶One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house and sat at the table.↗