31 "To what can I compare the people of this generation?

32 Theyare like little children who sit in the marketplace and shout to each other,‘A wedding song we played for you,the dance you did but scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too,but then you did not mourn.’

33 For John the Baptist has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, yet you say, ‘He has a demon!’

34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

35 Absolved from every act of sin,is wisdom by her kith and kin."

36 Now one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him. So he went to the Pharisee's home and took his place at the table.

37 There was a woman who was a notorious sinner in that city. When she learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's home, she took an alabaster jar of perfume