<p>7:31 <i>And the Lord said: Unto whom shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?</i>- The Lord several times spoke of that entire generation as sinful and unresponsive to the Gospel. Yet the context here is talking of John the Baptist&rsquo;s work. This therefore was a tacit recognition that John&rsquo;s ministry had been unsuccessful in terms of converting all Israel, and therefore clearly&nbsp;there was to be a change in the prophetic program. As noted earlier in commentary on this chapter, it was this change in the prophetic program which was worrying John, even though unnecessarily in terms of his own salvation.&nbsp;</p>