²⁶ “Everyone who keeps on hearing these messages^[a] of mine and never puts them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. ²⁷ The rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew and battered that house, and it collapsed—and its collapse was total.”

²⁸ When Jesus had finished saying all these things,^[b] the crowds were utterly amazed at his teaching,