“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).
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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