# Luke 7.33-34

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**Book:** [Luke](/codex/luke/) · NASB95

## Immediate context (±2 verses)

**ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/))
> 31. <span class="rl-speech">Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?</span> 32. <span class="rl-speech">They are like unto children that sit in the marketplace, and call one to another; who say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not weep.</span>
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> **33. <span class="rl-speech">For John the Baptist is come eating no bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a demon.</span> 34. <span class="rl-speech">The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold, a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!</span>**
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> 35. <span class="rl-speech">And wisdom is justified of all her children.</span> 36. And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. (Luke 7:31-36, ASV)

**WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/))
> 31. <span class="rl-speech">“To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?</span> 32. <span class="rl-speech">They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’</span>
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> **33. <span class="rl-speech">For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’</span> 34. <span class="rl-speech">The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’</span>**
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> 35. <span class="rl-speech">Wisdom is justified by all her children.”</span> 36. One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table. (Luke 7:31-36, WEB)

**KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/))
> 31. And the Lord said, <span class="rl-speech">Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?</span> 32. <span class="rl-speech">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.</span>
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> **33. <span class="rl-speech">For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.</span> 34. <span class="rl-speech">The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!</span>**
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> 35. <span class="rl-speech">But wisdom is justified of all her children.</span> 36. And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. (Luke 7:31-36, KJV)

**YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/))
> 31. And the Lord said, <span class="rl-speech">'To what, then, shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?</span> 32. <span class="rl-speech">they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!</span>
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> **33. <span class="rl-speech">'For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon;</span> 34. <span class="rl-speech">the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;</span>**
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> 35. <span class="rl-speech">and the wisdom was justified from all her children.'</span> 36. And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat), (Luke 7:31-36, YLT)

## Setting

- **Speaker:** _TBD_
- **Audience:** _TBD_
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- **Time period:** _TBD_

## Theological reading

_Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._

## Key words

_Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word._

- None of the words in this verse has its own lexicon entry yet.

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## Quoted in

**Concepts:**

- [Jesus Said](/codex/jesus-said/), via [Luke 7](/codex/luke-7/)
- [Marijuana and the Bible](/codex/marijuana-and-the-bible/)

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## Notes

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## Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

- **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.