therefore, whoever heareth these instructions of mine, and puts them in practice, I will compare him to the prudent man, who built his house upon a rock:

another part fell upon stony places, where it had not much earth: and it soon sprung up, because the soil was shallow:

and I tell thee likewise, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will hereafter build my church: and death shall not prevail against it.

Immediately the vail of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom; the earth trembled, the rocks split,

who taking down the body, wrapped it in a fine linnen cloth, which he had bought, and laid it in a sepulchre, which was hewn out of a rock, and roll'd a stone for a door to the sepulchre: and Mary Magdalene,

and breaking up the assembly, they drove him out of the city, to the precipice of the hill, upon which it was built, in order to throw him headlong down.

some fell upon very stony ground, which no sooner sprung up, but it wither'd away, for want of moisture:

then for fear of striking upon the rocks, they dropt four anchors astern, and lay impatient for the day.

as it is written, "behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone, and a rock of offence: and whosoever believeth in him, shall not be ashamed."

and all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of what flowed from the spiritual rock: and that rock was Christ.)

they place their felicity in daily pleasure: they are a vile scandal to religion: when they are present at your love-feasts they indulge their luxury:

they are a disgrace to your love-feasts, they indulge themselves at your festivals without reserve: clouds without water, transported with every wind: trees whose fruit soon withers and is useless, twice dead and rooted up: