“To whom shall I compare this generation” Mt. 11:16-19

In Jesus’ day, as today, there were groups of people who found it difficult to recognize the voice of God through the prophets of their time.

Jesus’ contemporaries do not realize that He was the Messiah, the long-awaited Messiah. They failed to recognize him in the signs he performed: “The blind see, the lame walk, the deaf hear, and the poor rejoice in the ‘Good News.’”

The authorities in Jesus’ day criticized him because nothing He did pleased them; They feel that he does not respect the law, eats with sinners, heals on the Sabbath…

This generation, Jesus says, is like children for whom the flute is played, and they do not dance, lamentations are sung, and they do not cry. That is to say, they are satisfied with nothing: neither with John because they accuse him of having a demon, nor with Jesus because they call him a glutton and a drunkard.

Today, do I know how to read the signs of the times?