Then Jesus taught them and said,
“This generation is like two groups of children sitting in the marketplace. One group called to the other to play with them, but the other group was sullen and stubborn and would not play.
The one group said to the other, we played music, but you would not dance, we wailed but you would not weep.”
Jesus continued teaching,
“John the Baptist came neither eating or drinking and they say he has a demon. The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, Look, a gluttonous man and a drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!”
Jesus then spoke about the cities in which He did most of His miracles,
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you Bethsaida! If the mighty works that were done in your city had been done in Tyre and Sidon they would have repented in sack cloth and ashes long ago. When the day of judgment comes, Tyre and Sidon will be judged more lightly than you.
And will Capernaum be exalted to heaven?
No, it will be cast down to hell. If the mighty works that had been done in Capernaum had been done in Sodom, they would have repented, and the city would still be standing today. It will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on that day of judgment than for you.”
Jesus then stopped and prayed out loud to his heavenly Father and said,
“I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and the educated and that you revealed them to the pure and childlike. Yes, Father, for this is what pleases you.”
Jesus continued,
“All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father; and no one knows the Father but the Son, and those to whom the Son decides to reveal him.
Come to me, all of you whose souls labor and are burdened down, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn about me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
