Luke 7:29-35
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( i When all the people heard this, and j the tax collectors too, they declared God just, j having been baptized with k the baptism of John,
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l but the Pharisees and m the lawyers n rejected o the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)
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"To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?
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They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another,
"'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.'
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For John the Baptist has come p eating no bread and q drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'
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The Son of Man has come r eating and drinking, and you say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, s a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
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Yet t wisdom is justified by all her children."
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Luke 20:6
But if we say, 'From man,' all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.
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Luke 3:12
Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?
Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
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Luke 3:12
Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?
Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
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Acts 18:25
He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
Acts 19:3
And he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism.
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Matthew 21:25
The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?" And they discussed it among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe him?
Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
Matthew 23:13
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
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Luke 10:25
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luke 11:45 - 46
One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.
Luke 11:52
Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.
Luke 14:3
And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?
Matthew 22:35
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.
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Mark 7:9
And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
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Acts 2:23
This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
Acts 13:36
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption.
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Matthew 3:4
Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Mark 1:6
Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.
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Luke 1:15
For he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
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Luke 7:36
One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table.
Luke 14:1
One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully.
Matthew 9:10
And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.
John 2:1
On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
John 12:2
So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.
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Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them.
Luke 19:7
And when they saw it, they all grumbled, "He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.
Matthew 9:11
And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?
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Luke 11:49
Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute.
Proverbs 8:1 - 36
Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice?
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