Every one, therefore, that hears these words of mine and performs them, I will liken to a wise man who built his house on the rock;

And every one who hears these words of mine and performs them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand;

and she, having been put forward by her mother, said, Give me here on a plate the head of John the Baptist.

and his head was brought on a plate and given to the girl, and she carried it to her mother.

And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonas, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven.

And I tell you that you are Peter [a rock], and upon this rock will I build my assembly, and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.

Hear another parable: There was a man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and made a hedge around it, and dug a wine vat in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,

and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

that all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Bararchiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar, may come upon you.

this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

said, This man said, I can destroy the temple of God and build it in three days.

saying, I have sinned, betraying innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see you to it.

And the chief priests taking the silver said, It is not lawful to put it into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

For this reason, the field is called a field of blood to this day.

And Pilate seeing that he accomplished nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this man; see you to it.

And all the people answered and said, His blood be upon us and upon our children.

and saying, You that destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.