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A GUEST at table. / Are ye deceived? Have any of the Rulers / Believed on him? or do they know indeed / This man to be the very Christ? Howbeit / We know whence this man is, but when the Christ / Shall come, none knoweth whence he is.
CHRISTUS. / Whereunto shall I liken, then, the men / Of this generation? and what are they like? / They are like children sitting in the markets, / And calling unto one another, saying: / We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced / We have mourned unto you, and ye have not wept! / This say I unto you, for John the Baptist / Came neither eating bread nor drinking wine / Ye say he hath a devil. The Son of Man / Eating and drinking cometh, and ye say: / Behold a gluttonous man, and a wine-bibber; / Behold a friend of publicans and sinners!