Luke 7:33

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say,‘He has a demon!’

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  • Luke 1:15 : 15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth.
  • Mark 1:6 : 6 John wore a garment made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
  • Jer 16:8-9 : 8 “‘Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either. 9 For I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, tell you what will happen. I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in this land. You and the rest of the people will live to see this happen.’” 10 The Lord Promises Exile(But Also Restoration)“When you tell these people about all this, they will undoubtedly ask you,‘Why has the LORD threatened us with such great disaster? What wrong have we done? What sin have we done to offend the LORD our God?’
  • Matt 3:4 : 4 Now John wore clothing made from camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house‘Beelzebul,’ how much worse will they call the members of his household!
  • John 8:48 : 48 The Judeans replied,“Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”
  • John 8:52 : 52 Then the Judeans responded,“Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say,‘If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.’
  • John 10:20 : 20 Many of them were saying,“He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?”
  • Acts 2:13 : 13 But others jeered at the speakers, saying,“They are drunk on new wine!”

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    17‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

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    34The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say,‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

  • Luke 5:32-34
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    32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

    33The Superiority of the New Then they said to him,“John’s disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours continue to eat and drink.”

    34So Jesus said to them,“You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

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    14The Superiority of the New Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked,“Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

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    32They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another,‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

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    16When the experts in the law and the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples,“Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

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    26So they came to John and said to him,“Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified– see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”

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    3For he is the one about whom the prophet Isaiah had spoken:“The voice of one shouting in the wilderness,‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.’”

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    17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

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    7While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John:“What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

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