From these words, therefore, thus explained, we gain this
observation:

That Jesus Christ would have mercy offered in the first place to the
biggest sinners.

That these Jerusalem sinners were the biggest sinners that ever were
in the world, I think none will deny, that believes that Christ was
the best man that ever was in the world, and also was their Lord God.
And that they were to have the first offer of his grace, the text is
as clear as the sun; for it saith, "Begin at Jerusalem." "Preach,"
saith he, "repentance and remission of sins" to the Jerusalem
sinners: to the Jerusalem sinners in the first place.

One would a-thought, since the Jerusalem sinners were the worst and
greatest sinners, Christ's greatest enemies, and those that not only
despised his person, doctrine, and miracles, but that a little before
had had their hands up to the elbows in his heart-blood, that he
should rather have said, Go into all the world, and preach repentance
and remission of sins among all nations; and after that offer the
same to Jerusalem; yea, it had been infinite grace, if he had said
so. But what grace is this, or what name shall we give it, when he
commands that this repentance and remission of sins, which is
designed to be preached in all nations, should first be offered to
Jerusalem, in the first place to the worst of sinners!

Nor was this the first time that the grace which was in the heart of
Christ thus shewed itself to the world. For while he was yet alive,
even while he was yet in Jerusalem, and perceived even among these