Go before you (προαγουσιν). "In front of you" (Weymouth). The publicans and harlots march ahead of the ecclesiastics into the king…

But what think ye? This was a way of speaking designed to direct them particularly to what He was saying, so that they might be self-convi…

They said to him, "The first." The answer apparently came from the lips of the very people who were self-condemned by it, implying…

Those poor fallen women and degraded tax-gatherers practically said by their conduct, "We will not serve the Lord." Their past evil life had been a…

St. Jerome: With this preface, the Lord brings forward a parable to convict them of their impiety and show them that the king…

In this parable, the older son says no, but repents and goes; the second son says yes, but does nothing. Who performs the Father’s will? The first.…

Whether of them twain did the will of his father ?
&c.] This is the question put by Christ, upon the preceding parab…

Parables that give reproof speak plainly to the offenders and judge them out of their own mouths. The parable of the two sons sent to work in the v…

Here, they reprehend by questioning. And firstly, the questioning is related; and secondly, the refutation is related, where it is said,