Discovery BoxLuke 7:32 
Context7:32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, 1
‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; 2
we wailed in mourning, 3 yet you did not weep.’
Luke 10:24
Context10:24 For I tell you that many prophets and kings longed to see 4 what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”
1 tn Grk “They are like children sitting…and calling out…who say.”
2 sn ‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance…’ The children of this generation were making the complaint (see vv. 33-34) that others were not playing the game according to the way they played the music. John and Jesus did not follow “their tune.” Jesus’ complaint was that this generation wanted things their way, not God’s.
3 tn The verb ἐθρηνήσαμεν (eqrhnhsamen) refers to the loud wailing and lamenting used to mourn the dead in public in 1st century Jewish culture.
4 sn This is what past prophets and kings had wanted very much to see, yet the fulfillment had come to the disciples. This remark is like 1 Pet 1:10-12 or Heb 1:1-2.
