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Luke 7:32 KJV
Luke · chapter 7 · verse 32 · King James Version
They 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.Luke 7:32 · King James Version
Luke 7:32 in context
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.
34The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Key words (Strong's)
- marketplaceagoraany assembly, especially of the people, the place of assembly, for public debating,, for…G58 →
- childrenpaidiona young child, a little boy, a little girl, infants, children, little ones, an infant, of…G3813 →
- sittingkathēmaito sit down, seat one's self, to sit, be seated, of a place occupied, to have a fixed…G2521 →
- callingprosphōneōto call to, to address by calling, to call to one's self, summonG4377 →
- mournedthrēneōto mourn, to lament, of singers of dirges, [to wail], to bewail, deploreG2354 →
- sayinglegōto say, to speak, affirm over, maintain, to teach, to exhort, advise, to command, direct…G3004 →
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