For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Ver. 32. John came unto you in a way of right] Which he both preached and lived. Nos non eloquimur magna, sed vivimus. We do not preach great matters but we live. John's practice was a transcript of what he preached; he burned within himself, he shone forth to others,John 5:35 .
Ye repented not afterwards] No, not after his death, though ye saw me succenturiated to him, and preaching and pressing the same things upon you that John did. A hypocrite comes more hardly to heaven than a gross sinner, and hath far more obstacles. Since he that must be stripped is not as soon clothed as one that is naked, and since he climbs not a tree as soon that must first come down from the top of another tree where he is perched, so is it here.