Luke 7:33
Good News Translation
John the Baptist came, and he fasted and drank no wine, and you said, 'He has a demon in him!'

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

Contemporary English Version
John the Baptist did not go around eating and drinking, and you said, "John has a demon in him!"

New American Bible
For John the Baptist came neither eating food nor drinking wine, and you said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine. And you say: He hath a devil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine. And you say: He hath a devil.

came.

Luke 1:15 For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

Jeremiah 16:8-10 And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, and to eat and drink: . . .

Matthew 3:4 And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

Mark 1:6 And John was clothed camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and he ate locusts and wild honey.

He.

Matthew 10:25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the good man of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household?

John 8:48,52 The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil? . . .

John 10:20 And many of them said: He hath a devil and is mad. Why hear you him?

Acts 2:13 But others mocking, said: These men are full of new wine.

Context
Jesus Testifies about John
32They are like to children sitting in the marketplace and speaking one to another and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept. 33For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine. And you say: He hath a devil. 34The Son of man is come eating and drinking. And you say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and sinners.…
Cross References
Matthew 3:1
And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea.

Luke 1:15
For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

Luke 7:32
They are like to children sitting in the marketplace and speaking one to another and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept.

Luke 7:34
The Son of man is come eating and drinking. And you say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and sinners.

Luke 7:32
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