Luke 13:30

And, behold The phrase sometimes implies -strange as you may think it." It occurs 23 times in St Matthew, 16 in St Luke; but not in St Mark.

there are last which shall be first Our Lord used this proverbial expression more than once. Matthew 19:30. It had, besides its universal truthfulness, a special bearing on His own time. "The publicans and the harlotsgo into the Kingdom of God before you," Matthew 21:31. "The Gentiles,which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness," Romans 9:30.

"There above (on earth)

How many hold themselves for mighty kings,

Who here like swine shall wallow in the mire,

Leaving behind them horrible dispraise."

Dante, Inferno.