Jerome, on Matt 21:28

“But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and coming to the first, he said: Son, go work today in my vineyard.”

“It should be known that in the correct copies it is read not The last, but The first, that they might be condemned by their own sentence. But should we prefer to read, as some have it, The last, the explanation is obvious, to say that the Jews understood the truth, but dissembled, and would not say what they thought; just as though they knew that the baptism of John was from heaven, they would not say so.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.