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This parable compares building one's life on the teachings and example of Jesus to a flood-resistant building founded on solid rock. The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders (also known as the House on the Rock), is a parable of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew as well as in the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke ().
The previous verses had discussed an array of rules for proper behaviour and worship. This verse begins a parable of two house builders, one wise and one foolish. The use of the phrase "these words of mine" is an indication that this parable is a summation and conclusion to the entire Sermon on the Mount. [1]
Jesus begins preaching in Capernaum, where Tamar and her mother Rachel hear him give a Sermon on the Mount and tell the Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders. As Jesus's notoriety grows, Judas Iscariot , a zealot plotting an uprising against the Roman Empire , believes him to be the Messiah of the Jewish people and leaves the zealots to ...
Jun. 15—Jesus told the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders in Matthew 7:24-27 and Luke 6:46-49 to show that one must prepare for the storms of life or possibly face destruction. The Revs.
Similarly, "My Hope Is Built" (Edward Mote, c. 1834) is inspired by the parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders, and "How Kind the Good Samaritan" (John Newton, c. 1779) is inspired by the parable of the Good Samaritan.
The foolish man is the Devil, who has built his house, that is, all the ungodly, upon the sand, that is, the insecurity of unbelief, or upon the carnal, who are called the sand on account of their barrenness; both because they do not cleave together, but are scattered through the diversity of their opinions, and because they are innumerable.
The previous verse introduced the wise man who built his house on a rock, the rock being a metaphor for the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. The fury of nature is much more elaborate than the version of this parable in Luke, where at Luke 6:48 there is only an overflowing river.
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