"Every one who hears my words and does them I will liken to a wise man who built his house upon the rock.

Some fell on rocky ground where there was not much earth. Now because it had no depth of soil, it sprang up at once;

"Moreover I say to you that you are Petros (a rock), and on this petra (rock) I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against her.

And lo, the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two, from the top to the bottom;

So Joseph bought him a sheet, and took Jesus down, wound him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock, and then rolled a stone against the opening of the tomb;

they rose, hurried him outside the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, intending to cast him down headlong.

"Some other seed dropped on the rock, as soon as it grew it withered away, because it had no moisture.

Then, fearing lest we should run ashore on the rocks, they threw out four anchors from the stern, and longed for day to come.

even as it is written. Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; but he that believes on Him shall not be put to shame.

and all drank from the same spiritual stream, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

suffering wrong as the wage of wrong which they have done. These are men who count it pleasure to carouse in open daylight; they are spots and blemishes reveling in their deceit, even while they are feasting with you.

These are they who are stains upon your love-feasts; when they feast sumptuously without scruple, looking after none but themselves. They are clouds without water, driven along by the winds; trees of autumn, fruitless, doubly dead, torn up by the roots,