rsv Matthew:11:7-19
rsv@Matthew:11:7 @ As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to behold? A reed shaken by the wind?
rsv@Matthew:11:8 @ Why then did you go out? To see a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those who wear soft raiment are in kings' houses.
rsv@Matthew:11:9 @ Why then did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
rsv@Matthew:11:10 @ This is he of whom it is written, `Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.'
rsv@Matthew:11:11 @ Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
rsv@Matthew:11:12 @ From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and men of violence take it by force.
rsv@Matthew:11:13 @ For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John;
rsv@Matthew:11:14 @ and if you are willing to accept it, he is Eli'jah who is to come.
rsv@Matthew:11:15 @ He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
rsv@Matthew:11:16 @ "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates,
rsv@Matthew:11:17 @ `We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.'
rsv@Matthew:11:18 @ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, `He has a demon';
rsv@Matthew:11:19 @ the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, `Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."