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

lest haply when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to make sport of him,

He is like a man building a house, who dug deep, and laid its foundation on a rock; and when a flood arose, the stream dashed against that house, and could not shake it; because it was well built.

But he that heareth and doeth not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth without a foundation; against which the stream dashed, and it fell at once, and the ruin of that house was great.