23and then I will acknowledge to them, that -- I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.
24`Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;
25and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock.
26`And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;
27and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.`
28And it came to pass, when Jesus ended these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,
29for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.
