"They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, …" — Luke 7:32

Luke 7:32 · KJV

“They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.”

— Luke 7:32

Verse 31

And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

Verse 33

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.

Luke 7 — Context

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. {rejected: or, frustrated} {against...: or, within themselves}

And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.

The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

Cross References

Matthew 11:16-19

But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,

Proverbs 17:16

Wherefore {is there} a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing {he hath} no heart {to it}?

Jeremiah 5:3-5

O LORD, {are} not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, {but} they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Isaiah 28:9-13

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? {them that are} weaned from the milk, {and} drawn from the breasts. {doctrine: Heb. the hearing?}

Isaiah 29:11-12

And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which {men} deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it {is} sealed: {book: or, letter}

Zechariah 8:5

And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.