Matthew 11:9-30 ▼

9 But what did you? go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you?, and one more than a prophet.

10 This is he about whom it has been written: ‘Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You.’

11 Truly I say to you?, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the least in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.

12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of the heavens is subject to violence, and the violent seize it.

13 For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.

14 And if you? are willing to receive it, he is Elijah, the one being about to come.

15 The one having ears, let him hear!

16 But to what will I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others,

17 saying: ‘We played the flute for you?, and you? did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you? did not mourn.’

18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’

19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a man, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and of sinners!’ But wisdom was justified from her works.”

20 Then He began to reproach the cities in which most of His miracles happened, because they did not repent.

21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles having happened in you? had happened in Tyre and Sidon, long ago in sackcloth and ashes they would have repented.

22 But I say to you?, for Tyre and Sidon it will be more bearable in the day of judgment than for you?.

23 And you, Capernaum, to heaven will you be lifted up? To Hades you will be brought down! For if the miracles having happened in you had happened in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

24 But I say to you? that it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.”

25 In that time, answering, Jesus said, “I acknowledge You, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, because You hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and You revealed them to little children.

26 Yes, Father, because of this it was good pleasure before You.

27 All things were delivered to Me by My Father. And no one knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone know the Father except the Son and the one to whom the Son may resolve to reveal Him.

28 Come to Me, all those toiling and burdened, and I will give you? rest.

29 Take up My yoke upon you? and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you? will find rest for your? souls.

30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”