The first] Hereby they confesse by just consequence, That the repenting. Publicans were better then themselves with all their good works in outward shew. go into the kingdom of God before you] They make haste to the kingdom of God, and ye are slack: so that at leastwise ye should have followed their example. Mark then, that this word go before, is improperly taken in this place, where no man followeth. They shall come to heaven, rather then you: Or, They go before you as guides, and shew you the way to heaven, which you, though you see in them, refuse to follow.