Luke 7:24-33

24When John’s messengers had left, Jesus spoke to the crowds about John. “What did you go into the desert to see? Tall grass swaying in the wind?

25Really, what did you go to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Those who wear splendid clothes and live in luxury are in royal palaces.

26Really, what did you go to see? A prophet? Let me tell you that he is far more than a prophet.

27John is the one about whom Scripture says, ‘I am sending my messenger ahead of you to prepare the way in front of you.’

28I can guarantee that of all the people ever born, no one is greater than John. Yet, the least important person in God’s kingdom is greater than John.

29“All the people, including tax collectors, heard John. They admitted that God was right by letting John baptize them.

30But the Pharisees and the experts in Moses’ Teachings rejected God’s plan for them. They refused to be baptized.

31“How can I describe the people who are living now? What are they like?

32They are like children who sit in the marketplace and shout to each other, ‘We played music for you, but you didn’t dance. We sang a funeral song, but you didn’t cry.’

33John the Baptizer has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘There’s a demon in him!’