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Chapter 7 (483) GOSPEL OF LUKE
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o* what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? They are like children who sit in the marketplace
and who call to one another, saying: We played the pipes to you, and you did not dance! We mourned to you, and you did not cry! For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drink- ing wine, and you say: He has a demon! The Son
Friday of the 20th Week:
The Lord said: ...*
and live delicately are in kings’ courts. But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet! This is he of whom it is written: Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way be- fore you. For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist, yet whoever is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.” Hearing this, all the people and the tax collectors who had been baptized with John’s baptism confessed God to be vindicated. However, the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God’s purpose, not be- ing baptized by him themselves.
End to Thursday and the Finding
of the Head of St. John the Forerunner.
Per. 32.