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GOSPELS PARABLES 2 BUILDING ON ROCK OR SAND Matthew 7:24 Luke 6:46 The next parable that Jesus taught was about a man who either builds a house upon a rock or builds his house upon the sand. Matthew 7:24 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.” And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. When we look at the final comment in that Scripture, we see that it says that the people recognised that Jesus had authority when he spoke,