31"To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?


In Context

28 I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

29 (All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus' words, acknowledged that God's way was right, because they had been baptized by John.

30 But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God's purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

31 "To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?

32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: " 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry.'

33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'

Luke 7:31 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:31And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:31And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:31Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:31To whom therefore shall I liken the men of this generation, and to whom are they like?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:31Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:31And the Lord said, To what then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:31|To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:31And the Lord said, 'To what, then, shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:31And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?