Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.

Some other seeds fell on stony soil where they had not much earth, and shot up at once because they had no depth of soil;

Now I tell you, Peter is your name and on this rock I will build my church; the powers of Hades shall not succeed against it.

And the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks were split,

He, after buying a linen sheet, took him down and swathed him in the linen, laying him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock and rolling a boulder up against the opening of the tomb.

they rose up, put him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, in order to hurl him down.

some other seed dropped on the rock, but it withered away when it sprang up because it had no moisture;

Then, afraid of being stranded on the rocks, they let go four anchors from the stern and longed for daylight.

and all drank the same supernatural drink (drinking from the supernatural Rock which accompanied them ??and that Rock was Christ),

done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight ??spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! ??14 their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!

These people are stains on your love-feasts; they have no qualms about carousing in your midst, they look after none but themselves ??rainless clouds, swept along by the wind, trees in autumn without fruit, doubly dead and so uprooted,