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Matthew 11:16
Matthew 11:16 is verse 16 of Matthew chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
King James Version
But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
World English Bible
“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions
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Matthew 11:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come.
15 He who has ears, let him hear.
16 To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
17 ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Lamentations 2:13What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
Mark 4:30Then He asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God? With what parable shall we present it?
Luke 13:18Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?
Matthew 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Matthew 23:36Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
Matthew 24:34Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened.
Luke 7:31“To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?
Luke 7:32They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another: ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’
Luke 7:33For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
Luke 7:34The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
Luke 7:35But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”