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Parable 19 · to the crowds

Children in the Marketplace

Mattityahu 11:16–19
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What Yeshua is saying

This generation is like children calling out in the marketplace — a flute was played and no one danced, a dirge was sung and no one mourned.

The explanation

Yochanan came fasting — they called him demon-possessed. Yeshua came eating — they called Him a glutton. Wisdom is justified by her children — by what is actually born from her teaching, not by the moods of her critics.

Echoes from the Tanakh
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