Synoptic Sayings - Children in Marketplace

CRITICS PARODIED
78	Matt 11	Mark	78	Luke 7
16	"But to what shall I compare		31	"To what then shall I compare
	this generation?			the men of this generation,
				and what are they like?
	It is like children		32	They are like children
	sitting in the marketplaces			sitting in the marketplace
	and calling to their playmates,			and calling to one another,
17	'We piped to you,			'We piped to you,
	and you did not dance;			and you did not dance;
	we wailed,			we wailed,
	and you did not mourn.'			and you did not weep.'
18	For John came		33	For John the Baptist has come
	neither eating nor drinking,			eating no bread and drinking no wine,
	and they say,			and you say,
	'He has a demon';			'He has a demon';
19	the Son of man came		34	the Son of man has come
	eating and drinking,			eating and drinking,
	and they say,			and you say,
	'Behold! a glutton and a drunkard			'Behold! a glutton and a drunkard
	a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'			a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
	Yet wisdom is justified		35	Yet wisdom is justified
	by her deeds."			by all her children."

Canonical gospel selection in the Revised Standard Version
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78	Sequence in synoptic outlines