Matthew 11:17

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What does Matthew 11:17 mean?

Matthew 11:17 in the original Greek

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Cross references for Matthew 11:17

• Isaiah 28:9-13

  Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. …

• Jeremiah 9:17-20

  Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

• Isaiah 30:29

  Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel.

• Matthew 9:15

  And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

• Jeremiah 31:4

  Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

• Luke 15:25

  Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.

• Matthew 9:23

  And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,

• 1 Corinthians 9:19-23

  For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. …

• 1 Kings 1:40

  And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

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Context

• Matthew 11:16

  But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,

• Matthew 11:17

  And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.

• Matthew 11:18

  For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.

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