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The Wise and Foolish Builders
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
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The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
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Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.
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The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
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And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
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At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split
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and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.
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Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.
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Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy.
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So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
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They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
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Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture.
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Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away.
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Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid.
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Fearing that we would be dashed against the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight.
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As it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”
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and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
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and, “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.
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Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
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They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!
