46 “And why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I tell you?[a]

The Sermon on the Plain: Two Houses and Two Foundations

47 “Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and does them—I will show you what he is like: 48 he is like a man building a house, who dug and went down deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when[b] a flood came, the river burst against that house and was not able to shake it, because it had been built well.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 6:46 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Luke 6:48 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“came”)