Luke 7:32 — Community Reflections

LUKE 7:32 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“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.”

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: we played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry — the children's game: one group plays festive music and the other group refuses to dance; they sing a funeral song and the other group refuses to mourn. The generation cannot be pleased by any format — they rejected the mourning of John (who came neither eating bread nor drinking wine) and they will reject the celebrating of Jesus (who came eating and drinking).

Church Fathers on Luke 7:32

Having declared the praises of John, he next exposes the great fault of the Pharisees and lawyers, who would not after the publicans receive the baptism of John. Hence it is said, And all the people that heard him, and the Publicans, justified God.
Chrysostom · 4th century

God is justified by baptism, wherein men justify themselves confessing their sins. For he that sins and confesses his sin to God justifies God, submitting himself to Him who overcomes, and hoping for grace from Him; God therefore is justified by baptism, in which there is confession and pardon of sin.
Ambrose · 4th century

Because also they believed, they justified God, for He appeared just to them in all that He did. But the disobedient conduct of the Pharisees in not receiving John, accorded not with the words of the prophet, That you might be justified when you speak. Hence it follows, But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God, &c.
Eusebius of Caesarea · 4th century

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