Matthew 11:16-24

Christian Standard Bible

An Unresponsive Generation

¹⁶ “To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to other children:

¹⁸ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’^{(A) 19} The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard,^(B) a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’^(C) Yet wisdom is vindicated^[b] by her deeds.”^[c]

²⁰ Then he proceeded to denounce the towns where most of his miracles were done, because they did not repent: ²¹ “Woe to you, Chorazin!^(D) Woe to you, Bethsaida!^(E) For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon,^(F) they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago. ²² But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment^(G) than for you. ²³ And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will go down to Hades.^(H) For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today. ²⁴ But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”