Luke 7:33

For John the Baptist has come ¹  eating no bread and drinking no wine, ²  and you say, ‘He has a demon!’ ³ 

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

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

For John the Baptist didn’t drink wine and he often fasted, and you say, ‘He’s demon possessed.’

John the Baptizer came fasting and you called him crazy.

For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit.

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

"For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

For John the Baptist has come ¹  eating no bread and drinking no wine, ²  and you say, ‘He has a demon!’ ³ 

¹ tn The perfect tenses in both this verse and the next do more than mere aorists would. They not only summarize, but suggest the characteristics of each ministry were still in existence at the time of speaking.

² tn Grk “neither eating bread nor drinking wine,” but this is somewhat awkward in contemporary English.

³ sn John the Baptist was too separatist and ascetic for some, and so he was accused of not being directed by God, but by a demon.