"Everyone therefore who
hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man,
who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods
came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for
it was founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of
mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house
on the sand. The rain
came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house;
and it fell--and great was its fall." It happened, when
Jesus had finished saying these things, that the multitudes were
astonished at his teaching, for he taught them with
authority, and not like the scribes.