The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”
Christ stopped his praise of John to condemn those who had both John's ministry and his own among them and profited not at all. The Jewish people of that generation were as barren and unprofitable as could be; nothing is more absurd than to have good preaching and be never the better for it.
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Commenting on Matthew 11:16-24
He upbraided them with justice: they had seen the mightiest works done in their cities, the dead raised, the blind made to see, demons cast out, yet refused to repent and believe He was the Messiah. They could not be moved, neither by John's ministry nor by His own.
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Verse 19. (q) "eating and drinking" (r) "Publicans" (s) "But wisdom"