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Gospel Reading - Jesus talks of the people in His generation

¹⁶“What shall I say about this nation? These people are like children playing, who say to their little friends, ¹⁷‘We played wedding and you weren’t happy, so we played funeral but you weren’t sad.’ ¹⁸ For John the Baptist doesn’t even drink wine and often goes without food, and you say, ‘He’s crazy.’^{a 19}And I, the Messiah,^b feast and drink, and you complain that I am ‘a glutton and a drinking man, and hang around with the worst sort of sinners!’ But brilliant men like you can justify your every inconsistency!”

1. Literally, “He has a demon.”
2. the Messiah, Literally, “the Son of Man.” brilliant men like you can justify your every inconsistency, literally, “wisdom is justified by her children.”