Matthew 11:10-19

10This is the one about whom it 1is written, ‘2Behold, I send My messenger 3ahead of You, Who will prepare Your way before You.’ 11Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is 4least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 125From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven 6suffers violence, and violent men 7take it by force. 13For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John. 14And if you are willing to accept it, John himself is 8Elijah who 9was to come. 1510He who has ears to hear, 11let him hear.

16“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the other children, 17and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not 12mourn.’ 18For John came neither 13eating nor 14drinking, and they say, ‘15He has a demon!’ 19The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a 16drunkard, 17a friend of tax collectors and 18sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”