John Calvin Commentary Luke 13:30

"And behold, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last." — Luke 13:30 (ASV)

And, behold, they are last who shall be first. The same words, as we will see elsewhere, were frequently used by Christ, but in a different sense (Matthew 19:30; Matthew 20:16; Mark 10:31). All that he intended here was to overthrow the vain confidence of the Jews, who, having been chosen by God in preference to all the rest of the world, trusted in this distinction and imagined that God was somehow bound to them. For this reason, Christ threatens that their condition will soon be changed; that the Gentiles, who were at that time rejected, would obtain the first rank; and that the Jews, deprived of their honor, would not even occupy the farthest corner in the Church.⁴⁷⁵

⁴⁷⁵ “Ne tiendront pas mesme le dernier reng, ou quelque petit coin en l'Eglise;” — “will not hold even the lowest rank, or some small corner in the Church.”;” — “will not hold even the lowest rank, or some small corner in the Church.”