But to whom will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to their friends
In this saying, Jesus describes the generation of his time as unstable and discontented people, like children sitting in the marketplaces—always demanding, yet never responding—and by this comparison he prepares the explanation that, as we will see next, will show their contradictory and stubborn attitude toward both John the Baptist and his own ministry.