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28 I tell you there is not among those born of women a greater than John. But an inferior in the kingdom of God is greater than he."
29 (All the people, even the tax collectors when they heard him, had confessed that God was right by being baptized with the baptism of John.
30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers had thwarted the purpose of God in reference to themselves by not being baptized by him.)
31 "To what then shall I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?
32 They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another, 'We played the flute for you but you did not dance. We mourned but you did not wail!'
33 For John the Baptist has come, not eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'
34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'See there a man who is a glutton and wine-drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
35 Yet Wisdom is shown to be in the right by all her children."