And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
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Gill's Exposition
The son of man is come eating and drinking,.... That is, eating bread and drinking wine, as other people do; and shuns no man's company, goes to a wedding, dines with a Pharisee, and eats with…
See this passage explained in Mat. 11:2-19. Luk 7:29 The people - The common people. That heard him - That heard “John.” The publicans - The tax-gatherers, the worst kind of people, who had, however,…
Adam Clarke
And the Lord said - Almost every MS. of authority and importance, with most of the versions, omit these words. As the Evangelistaria (the books which contained those portions of the Gospels which were…
All this discourse concerning John Baptist, occasioned by his sending to ask whether he was the Messiah or no, we had, much as it is here related, Mt. 11:2-19.
I. We have here the message John Baptist…
Cambridge Bible
And the Lord said These words are almost certainly spurious, being omitted by all the best uncials.
Whereunto then shall I liken Our Lord seems more than once to have used this formula to arrest…