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26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed—it was utterly destroyed!”[a]

28 When[b] Jesus finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed by his teaching,

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 7:27 tn Grk “and great was its fall.”
  2. Matthew 7:28 tn Grk “And it happened when.” The introductory phrase καὶ ἐγένετο (kai egeneto, “it happened that”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.