He is like a man who built a house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that, without a foundation, built a house on the earth, against which the stream beat vehemently, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.

That the blood of all the prophets, which hath been shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

Lest perhaps after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

For which of you wants to build a tower and does not first sit down to calculate the expense, to see if he has enough money to complete it? ??29 in case, after he has laid the foundation and then is unable to finish the building, all the spectators start to make fun of him,

But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building?

Everyone falling on that stone will be broken, but the man on whom the stone comes down will be crushed to dust.

and destroy you and your children with you, and not leave stone upon stone in you; because you knew not the time of your visitation.

As to these things which you see, the days will come in which stone shall not be left upon stone that shall not be thrown down.

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.

And He Himself withdrew about a stone's throw from them, and after kneeling down He continued to pray,