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Luke 7:31 KJV
Luke · chapter 7 · verse 31
And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?Luke 7:31 · King James Version
Luke 7:31 in context
29And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
30But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
31And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
32They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
33For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- generationgeneafathered, birth, nativity, that which has been begotten, men of the same stock, a family…G1074 →
- Whereuntotiswho, which, whatG5101 →
- likenhomoioōto be made like, to liken, compare, illustrate by comparisonsG3666 →
- Lordkyrioshe to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding master, lord…G2962 →
- saideiponto speak, sayG2036 →
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All this discourse concerning John Baptist, occasioned by his sending to ask whether he was the Messiah or no, we had, much as it is here related, Mt. 11:2-19. I. We have here the message John Baptist sent to Christ, and the return he made to it. Observe, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-35