mnt - Luke:7:18-35

mnt@Luke:7:18 @ Johns disciples brought him word of all these things

mnt@Luke:7:19 @ and, calling a certain two disciples to him, he sent them to Jesus, to say, "Are you the coming one, or if we are to expect another?"

mnt@Luke:7:20 @ So the men came to Jesus and said, "Johnthe Baptist has sent us to ask you if you are the coming one, or if we are to expect another."

mnt@Luke:7:21 @ At that moment Jesus was healing many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and to many that were blind he was freely giving their sight.

mnt@Luke:7:22 @ So he answered them. "Go your way, tell Johnwhat you have seen and heard. How the blind are seeing, the lame are walking, the lepers are being cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised, and the poor are hearing the proclamations of glad tidings.

mnt@Luke:7:23 @ "And blessed is he who finds no cause of stumbling in me."

mnt@Luke:7:24 @ When Johns messengers were gone he began to speak to the crowds about John, saying, "What went out you out to the desert to behold? A reed shaken by the wind?

mnt@Luke:7:25 @ "But what you went out to behold? A man clothed in soft robes? Behold, men who are gorgeously dressed and live in luxury are in kings palaces.

mnt@Luke:7:26 @ "But what went you to see? A prophet?

mnt@Luke:7:27 @ "Yes, I tell you and more than a prophet. This is he who it is written. "Behold I send a messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee.

mnt@Luke:7:28 @ "I tell you that among all that are born of women not one is greater than John; yet he that is little in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

mnt@Luke:7:29 @ On hearing this all the people and the tax-gatherers acknowledged the justice of God by being baptized with the baptism of John;

mnt@Luke:7:30 @ but the Pharisees and lawyers who had refused his baptism, frustrated Gods purpose for themselves.

mnt@Luke:7:31 @ "To what then shall I compare the men of this generation?

mnt@Luke:7:32 @ "To What are they like, they are like children sitting in the market- place and calling to one another. "We have piped to you, they say, and you have not danced; we have wailed, and you did not cry.

mnt@Luke:7:33 @ "For Johnthe Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, He has a demon!

mnt@Luke:7:34 @ "The son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

mnt@Luke:7:35 @ "Nevertheless, wisdom is justified by all her children."