And he said to his disciples, "It is impossible for causes for stumbling not to come, but woe [to him] through whom they come!

he is like a man building a house, who dug and went down deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And [when] a flood came, the river burst against that house and was not able to shake it, because it had been built well.

And other [seed] fell on the rock, and [when it] came up, it withered, because it did not have moisture.

And those on the rock [are those] who receive the word with joy when they hear [it], and these do not have [enough] root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away.

And he took [it] down [and] wrapped it in a linen cloth and placed him in a tomb cut into the rock where no one had ever been placed.