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

Lest, when he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all that see it begin to deride him,

He is like a man that, when building a house, digged deep, and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the torrent dashed against that house, and it was not able to shake it, for it was founded on the rock.

But he that hears, and does not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth, without a foundation, against which the torrent dashed with violence, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.