Jesus Criticizes His Generation

Matt. 11:16–19

31 1And the Lord said, a“To what then shall I liken the men of this generation, and what are they like? 32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, saying:

‘We played the flute for you,

And you did not dance;

We mourned to you,

And you did not weep.’

33 For bJohn the Baptist came cneither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ 34 The Son of Man has come deating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a 2winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ 35 eBut wisdom is justified by all her children.”

A Woman Anoints Jesus’ Feet

36 fThen one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to eat. 37 And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, 38 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, g“This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.”