...generation ? It is like children sitting in the market-places, and calling to their 17 companions, and saying, ' We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, 18 and ye have not lamented.' For John came neither eating nor drinking ; and men say, ' He hath a...

...holy function, that their diviae Founder, as .well as his harbinger, met with the like reception : " John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, he hath a devil ; the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, behold a glutton and a wine-bibber," &c. In this deplorable...

...embraced the gospel, a fervour equal to that with which they had engaged in the service of sin. But whereunto shall I liken this generation ? It is like...we have piped unto you, and ye have not danced, we Jiave mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. The allusion is to Jewish children, who, haying seen...

...what are they like ? They are like children bitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, ' We have piped unto you, and ye have...danced : we have mourned unto you, and ye have not S3 wept.' For John the Baptist hath come neither eating bread, nor drinking wine ; and ye say, ' He...

...receive it, this is Elias which was for to come. 15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation ? It is like...sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, 1 7 And saying, We have piped unto you, MARK. LUKE. CHAP. VII. the kingdom of God, is greater than...

...generation ? It is like children sitting in the market-places, and calling to their !7 companions, and saying, 'We have piped unto you, ' and ye have not danced ; we have mourned unto you, 18 and ye have not lamented.' For John came neither eating nor drinking ; and men say, ' He hath a...

...unto children fitting " in ithe markets, and calling unto their fellows, " and faying; we have piped unto you, and ye " have not danced ; we have mourned...John came *' neither eating, nor drinking, and they fay he " hath a devil. The fon of man came eating and " drinking ; and they fay, behold a man glut"...

...hath ears to hear, let him hear. 16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like Unto the children sitting in the markets, and calling Unto...unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned uoto you, and ye have not lamented. 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He...

...to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shall be to him instead of God. . . , No. 392.— xi. 16. But whereunto shall I liken this generation ? it is like...sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows.] It was the custom of children among the Jews, in their sports, to imitate what they saw done by others...

...entertained a prejudice against the Gospel, which proved fatal to themselves and to their country. "Whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like...drinking, and they say, he hath a devil. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and thejr »ay, behold a nian gluttonous, and a wine-bibber, a friend of...