A moment in scripture
Luke 7:33
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For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
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The surrounding passage
- Luke 7:31
And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
- Luke 7:32
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 7:34
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!
- Luke 7:35
But wisdom is justified of all her children.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.