Luke 7:31-34 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?… Other persons had been, or were, sons of individual men, members of particular nations or families; but Jesus, as "the Son of man," was no man's son, but the child of humanity; belonged to no age, but to all ages; to no family or people, but to mankind. He is, as the Divine idea realized, universal and everlasting, an individual who is, in a sense, humanity. (A. M. Fairbairn, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?WEB: "To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like? |