◄ Luke 7:31 ►
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Good News Translation
Jesus continued, "Now to what can I compare the people of this day? What are they like?

New Revised Standard Version
“To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

Contemporary English Version
Jesus went on to say: What are you people like? What kind of people are you?

New American Bible
“Then to what shall I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? And to what are they like?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? And to what are they like?

Whereunto.

Lamentations 2:13 Mem. To what shall I compare thee? or to what shall I liken thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? to what shall I equal thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Sion? for great as the sea is thy destruction: who shall heal thee?

Matthew 11:16 But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place.

*etc:

Mark 4:30 And he said: To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? or to what parable shall we compare it?

Context
Jesus Testifies about John
…30But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him. 31And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? And to what are they like? 32They are like to children sitting in the marketplace and speaking one to another and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept.…
Cross References
Matthew 7:24
Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,

Matthew 11:16
But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place.

Luke 7:30
But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him.

Luke 7:32
They are like to children sitting in the marketplace and speaking one to another and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept.

Luke 7:30
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