Bible verse

Luke 7:31

“To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?

Luke 7:31 · BSB

Luke 7:31 in context

The verses around it, from Luke 7.

27 This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’

28 I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John, yet even the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

29 All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.

30 But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.

31 “To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?

32 They 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.’

33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

34 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

35 But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”

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Luke 7:31 in other translations

KJV

And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

ASV

Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?

ERV

Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?

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