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Luke6:46–49

The House on the Rock

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Luke 6:46–49 — The House on the Rock. Each verse below carries the full apparatus: the Berean Standard Bible, the vocalized original (tap any word), and a parsed breakdown of every term transcribed from the interlinear. Synthesized commentary, canonical threads, and the reading of Christ gather at the end, over the whole unit.

46

Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?

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Greek — tap a word ↓

de Ti kaleite me Kyrie kyrie kai ou poieite ha legō

Word by word11 · parsed
δέdeG1161
√ δέ — but, and, etcConjunction
de: and, but Light connective, linking this challenge to the fruit and treasure sayings of vv. 43 to 45.
ΤίTiWhyG5101
√ τίς — an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)Interrogative / Indefinite PronounAccusative Neuter Singular
tis: who, what, why A rhetorical “why,” indicting rather than inquiring.
καλεῖτεkaleitedo you callG2564
√ καλέω — to "call" (properly, aloud, but used in a variety of applications, directly or otherwise)VerbPresent Indicative Active2nd Person Plural
kaleō: to call (aloud) Present indicative: an ongoing practice of naming Jesus. The verb of address is set against the verb of doing at index 8; the sentence turns on that gap.
μεmeMeG1473
√ ἐγώ — I, mePersonal / Possessive PronounAccusative 1st Person Singular
ΚύριεKyrieLordG2962
√ κύριος — supreme in authority, iNounVocative Masculine Singular
kyrios: supreme in authority, master, lord Vocative. The title owns authority over the one who speaks it. Cambridge sets it beside Malachi 1:6 (“If I be a master, where is my fear?”), where the Lord of hosts presses the same incongruity on priests who honored him in words. The repetition (index 5) is the form of fervent invocation also heard in Matthew 7:21 to 22 and Luke 13:25.
κύριεkyrieLordG2962
√ κύριος — supreme in authority, iNounVocative Masculine Singular
kyrios The doubled vocative: intensity of address, not of obedience.
καὶkai[but]G2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
οὐou{do} notG3756
√ οὐ — the absolute negative (compare G3361 (μή)) adverbAdverb
ou: absolute negative The flat factual “not” of the indicative: a description of what is actually happening.
ποιεῖτεpoieitedoG4160
√ ποιέω — to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)VerbPresent Indicative Active2nd Person Plural
poieō: to make, do Present indicative. Poieō is the hinge verb of the whole unit: it returns at v. 47 (participle, “doing them”) and v. 49 (aorist participle, “not having done”). Gill glosses Jesus’ “say” as “command,” which is why not-doing amounts to disowning the Lord one names.
ἃhawhatG3739
√ ὅς — the relatively (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what, thatPersonal / Relative PronounAccusative Neuter Plural
λέγωlegōI sayG3004
√ λέγω — properly, to "lay" forth, iVerbPresent Indicative Active1st Person Singular
legō: to lay forth, say First person present: Jesus is the speaker whose words are the measure, the same “my words” that v. 47 makes the foundation material.
47

I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:

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hypodeixō hymin tini estin homoios Pas ho erchomenos pros me kai akouōn mou tōn logōn kai poiōn autous

Word by word18 · parsed
ὑποδείξωhypodeixōI will showG5263
√ ὑποδείκνυμι — to exhibit under the eyes, iVerbFuture Indicative Active1st Person Singular
hypodeiknymi: to exhibit under the eyes A relatively uncommon verb (6 verses in the Verifier’s count). Luke uses it again when John the Baptist asks who “showed” (warned) the brood of vipers to flee (Luke 3:7) and when Jesus says “I will show you whom to fear” (Luke 12:5): in each case a showing that is also a warning.
ὑμῖνhyminyouG4771
√ σύ — thouPersonal / Possessive PronounDative 2nd Person Plural
τίνιtiniwhatG5101
√ τίς — an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)Interrogative / Indefinite PronounDative Masculine Singular
tis: who, what Dative masculine; Gill notes the Syriac and Arabic render “to what thing,” though he judges the personal sense fits better.
ἐστὶνestinhe isG1510
√ εἰμί — I exist (used only when emphatic)VerbPresent Indicative Active3rd Person Singular
ὅμοιοςhomoioslikeG3664
√ ὅμοιος — similar (in appearance or character)AdjectiveNominative Masculine Singular
homoios: similar The comparison word that frames both halves of the parable (v. 48 index 1, v. 49 index 7).
ΠᾶςPasG3956
√ πᾶς — all, any, every, the wholeAdjectiveNominative Masculine Singular
pas: all, every Universal subject: no class of hearer is exempt from the test.
ὁhowhoG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleNominative Masculine Singular
ἐρχόμενοςerchomenoscomesG2064
√ ἔρχομαι — to come or go (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)VerbPresent Participle Middle or PassiveNominative Masculine Singular
erchomai: to come Present participle. Coming to Me (pros me) places Jesus himself at the destination; the parable is about a relation to a Person before it is about a moral program.
πρόςprostoG4314
√ πρός — a preposition of directionPreposition
μεmeMeG1473
√ ἐγώ — I, mePersonal / Possessive PronounAccusative 1st Person Singular
καὶkaiandG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
ἀκούωνakouōnhearsG191
√ ἀκούω — to hear (in various senses)VerbPresent Participle ActiveNominative Masculine Singular
akouō: to hear Present participle, a common verb (398 verses). Hearing is shared by both builders (cf. v. 49 index 2); as Pulpit, citing Augustine, observes, neither figure is an outright rejecter of the truth.
μουmouMyG1473
√ ἐγώ — I, mePersonal / Possessive PronounGenitive 1st Person Singular
τῶνtōnG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleGenitive Masculine Plural
λόγωνlogōnwordsG3056
√ λόγος — something said (including the thought)NounGenitive Masculine Plural
logos: word, saying Genitive plural, “my words.” The material of the foundation is Jesus’ own sayings, the sermon just delivered in Luke 6:20 to 45.
καὶkaiandG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
ποιῶνpoiōnacts onG4160
√ ποιέω — to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)VerbPresent Participle ActiveNominative Masculine Singular
poieō: to do Present participle, the decisive third element. Cambridge links it to John 13:17 and James 1:22 (“Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only”), where hearing without doing is self-deception.
αὐτούςautousthemG846
√ αὐτός — the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ)) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other personsPersonal / Possessive PronounAccusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
48

He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.

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estin homoios anthrōpō oikodomounti oikian hos eskapsen kai ebathynen kai ethēken themelion epi tēn petran de plēmmyrēs genomenēs ho potamos proserēxen ekeinē tē oikia kai ischysen ouk saleusai autēn dia autēn to oikodomēsthai kalōs

Word by word34 · parsed
ἐστινestinHe isG1510
√ εἰμί — I exist (used only when emphatic)VerbPresent Indicative Active3rd Person Singular
ὅμοιόςhomoioslikeG3664
√ ὅμοιος — similar (in appearance or character)AdjectiveNominative Masculine Singular
ἀνθρώπῳanthrōpōa manG444
√ ἄνθρωπος — from G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι))NounDative Masculine Singular
anthrōpos: man, human being A generic human: the builder stands for any hearer.
οἰκοδομοῦντιoikodomountibuildingG3618
√ οἰκοδομέω — to be a house-builder, iVerbPresent Participle ActiveDative Masculine Singular
oikodomeō: to build a house Present participle, “building,” the work in progress. The same verb returns at index 32 as a perfect infinitive (built and standing) and at v. 49 as an aorist participle (built, done). Paul uses it of building on another’s foundation (Romans 15:20).
οἰκίανoikiana houseG3614
√ οἰκία — properly, residence (abstractly), but usually (concretely) an abode (literally or figuratively)NounAccusative Feminine Singular
ὃςhoswhoG3739
√ ὅς — the relatively (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what, thatPersonal / Relative PronounNominative Masculine Singular
ἔσκαψενeskapsendug downG4626
√ σκάπτω — to digVerbAorist Indicative Active3rd Person Singular
skaptō: to dig A rare verb, in the Verifier’s count only 3 verses, all in Luke: here, the vinedresser’s “I will dig around it” (Luke 13:8) and the steward’s “to dig I am not strong” (Luke 16:3). Digging is costly, humble labor; the steward will not stoop to it, the wise builder does.
καὶkaiG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
ἐβάθυνενebathynendeepG900
√ βαθύνω — to deepenVerbAorist Indicative Active3rd Person Singular
bathynō: to deepen Aorist, a separate act after the digging: he kept going down. Ellicott draws the application that the foundation is not reached by “a passing emotion” but by a process that goes beneath the surface strata of a life.
καὶkaiandG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
ἔθηκενethēkenlaidG5087
√ τίθημι — to place (in the widest application, literally and figurativelyVerbAorist Indicative Active3rd Person Singular
tithēmi: to place, lay Aorist, “he laid.” The same verb pairs with themelios in 1 Corinthians 3:10 to 11 and Luke 14:29: laying a foundation is a decisive, once-for-all act.
θεμέλιονthemelion[his] foundationG2310
√ θεμέλιος — something put down, iNounAccusative Neuter Singular
themelios: something put down, a foundation A relatively rare noun (15 verses). Here it is laid on the rock; in v. 49 (index 15) its absence is the whole fault. Paul’s “other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:11) is the canonical commentary several voices (Henry, Cambridge) reach for.
ἐπὶepionG1909
√ ἐπί — properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etcPreposition
τὴνtēntheG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleAccusative Feminine Singular
πέτρανpetranrockG4073
√ πέτρα — a (mass of) rock (literally or figuratively)NounAccusative Feminine Singular
petra: a mass of rock With the article: the rock, bedrock beneath the soil, not a stone. In the Greek Old Testament the rock is a recurring figure for the LORD’s steadfastness (e.g. Psalm 18:2), and Cambridge, with Paul (1 Corinthians 10:4), identifies the rock as Christ and his teaching. Within Luke’s own sentence, the rock is reached by doing Jesus’ words.
δὲdeWhenG1161
√ δέ — but, and, etcConjunction
πλημμύρηςplēmmyrēs[the] floodG4132
√ πλήμμυρα — flood-tide, iNounGenitive Feminine Singular
plēmmyra: flood-tide Genitive absolute with index 17: “a flood having come.” Ellicott notes the word referred primarily to the sea; Gill renders “when it was tide.” Standard lexica list it nowhere else in the New Testament.
γενομένηςgenomenēscameG1096
√ γίνομαι — to cause to be ("gen"-erate), iVerbAorist Participle MiddleGenitive Feminine Singular
ὁhotheG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleNominative Masculine Singular
ποταμὸςpotamostorrentG4215
√ ποταμός — a current, brook or freshet (as drinkable), iNounNominative Masculine Singular
potamos: river, torrent Moderately rare (17 verses); shared with Matthew 7:25, 27. Benson and Pulpit (citing Plumptre) describe the winter wadi that fills suddenly and sweeps the valley floor.
προσέρηξενproserēxencrashed againstG4366
√ προσρήγνυμι — to tear towards, iVerbAorist Indicative Active3rd Person Singular
prosrēgnymi: to break against Aorist. In the New Testament found only here and in v. 49; the same blow falls on both houses. The test is identical; only the foundation differs.
ἐκείνῃekeinēthatG1565
√ ἐκεῖνος — that one (or (neuter) thing)Demonstrative PronounDative Feminine Singular
τῇtēG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleDative Feminine Singular
οἰκίᾳoikiahouseG3614
√ οἰκία — properly, residence (abstractly), but usually (concretely) an abode (literally or figuratively)NounDative Feminine Singular
καὶkaibutG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
ἴσχυσενischysencouldG2480
√ ἰσχύω — to have (or exercise) force (literally or figuratively)VerbAorist Indicative Active3rd Person Singular
ischyō: to have force The torrent “had no strength.” The verb links verbally to Luke 16:3 (“I am not strong to dig”) and Luke 14:29 (the builder who laid a foundation and was “not able” to finish).
οὐκouknotG3756
√ οὐ — the absolute negative (compare G3361 (μή)) adverbAdverb
σαλεῦσαιsaleusaishakeG4531
√ σαλεύω — to waver, iVerbAorist Infinitive Active
saleuō: to waver, shake Aorist infinitive. Not even shaken, Ellicott stresses. The verb is the one Peter uses quoting Psalm 16:8 of the Messiah: “I shall not be moved” (Acts 2:25).
αὐτὴνautēnitG846
√ αὐτός — the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ)) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other personsPersonal / Possessive PronounAccusative Feminine 3rd Person Singular
διὰdiabecauseG1223
√ διά — through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional)Preposition
αὐτήνautēnitG846
√ αὐτός — the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ)) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other personsPersonal / Possessive PronounAccusative Feminine 3rd Person Singular
τὸtoG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleAccusative Neuter Singular
οἰκοδομῆσθαιoikodomēsthaiwas well builtG3618
√ οἰκοδομέω — to be a house-builder, iVerbPerfect Infinitive Middle or Passive
oikodomeō Perfect passive infinitive: the house stands as a finished, lasting structure. The cause clause in the critical text locates stability in the quality of the building, which v. 48 has just defined as digging to the rock.
καλῶςkalōs. . .G2573
√ καλῶς — well (usually morally)Adverb
kalōs: well Often moral in tone (“rightly, nobly”); here it qualifies the construction, the fruit of the costly digging.
49

But the one who hears My words and does not act on them is like a man who built his house on ground without a foundation. The torrent crashed against that house, and immediately it fell—and great was its destruction!”

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de ho akousas kai mē poiēsas estin homoios anthrōpō oikodomēsanti oikian epi tēn gēn chōris themeliou ho potamos proserēxen hē kai euthys synepesen kai mega egeneto to tēs oikias ekeinēs rhēgma

Word by word31 · parsed
δὲdeButG1161
√ δέ — but, and, etcConjunction
ὁhothe [one who]G3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleNominative Masculine Singular
ἀκούσαςakousashears [My words]G191
√ ἀκούω — to hear (in various senses)VerbAorist Participle ActiveNominative Masculine Singular
akouō: to hear Aorist participle. This builder heard the same words; Pulpit (with Augustine) stresses that the parable describes two hearers, not a hearer and a rejecter.
καὶkaiandG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
μὴmē{does} notG3361
√ μή — (adverb) not, (conjunction) lestAdverb
mē: not The participial negative, standard with participles.
ποιήσαςpoiēsasact on themG4160
√ ποιέω — to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)VerbAorist Participle ActiveNominative Masculine Singular
poieō: to do Aorist participle, the failure that decides everything, echoing v. 46’s “you do not do.”
ἐστινestinisG1510
√ εἰμί — I exist (used only when emphatic)VerbPresent Indicative Active3rd Person Singular
ὅμοιόςhomoioslikeG3664
√ ὅμοιος — similar (in appearance or character)AdjectiveNominative Masculine Singular
ἀνθρώπῳanthrōpōa manG444
√ ἄνθρωπος — from G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι))NounDative Masculine Singular
οἰκοδομήσαντιoikodomēsantiwho builtG3618
√ οἰκοδομέω — to be a house-builder, iVerbAorist Participle ActiveDative Masculine Singular
oikodomeō Aorist participle: he did build. The foolish man is not idle; he is a builder, which is what makes the warning sharp for religious hearers.
οἰκίανoikian[his] houseG3614
√ οἰκία — properly, residence (abstractly), but usually (concretely) an abode (literally or figuratively)NounAccusative Feminine Singular
ἐπὶepionG1909
√ ἐπί — properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etcPreposition
τὴνtēnG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleAccusative Feminine Singular
γῆνgēngroundG1093
√ γῆ — soilNounAccusative Feminine Singular
gē: soil, earth Matthew has “sand”; Luke has bare “earth.” Cambridge reads Matthew’s sand as “superficial intellectual acceptance”; Gill notes the Syriac “upon the dust of it.”
χωρὶςchōriswithoutG5565
√ χωρίς — at a space, iPreposition
chōris: apart from, without Prepositional “apart from,” stressing separation: nothing beneath.
θεμελίουthemeliou[a] foundationG2310
√ θεμέλιος — something put down, iNounGenitive Neuter Singular
themelios: foundation Genitive after chōris. The single missing element. In Luke 14:29 the man who “laid a foundation” but could not finish is mocked; here the man who never laid one is ruined.
ὁhoTheG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleNominative Masculine Singular
ποταμόςpotamostorrentG4215
√ ποταμός — a current, brook or freshet (as drinkable), iNounNominative Masculine Singular
προσέρηξενproserēxencrashed againstG4366
√ προσρήγνυμι — to tear towards, iVerbAorist Indicative Active3rd Person Singular
prosrēgnymi: to break against Same verb as v. 48 index 20: the identical assault.
ᾗhē[that house]G3739
√ ὅς — the relatively (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what, thatPersonal / Relative PronounDative Feminine Singular
καὶkaiandG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
εὐθὺςeuthysimmediatelyG2112
√ εὐθέως — directly, iAdverb
euthys: directly, immediately No resistance at all: the contrast with “could not even shake” is total.
συνέπεσενsynepesenit fellG4098
√ πίπτω — to fall (literally or figuratively)VerbAorist Indicative Active3rd Person Singular
piptō (here syn-piptō): to fall Aorist: a single, final collapse.
καὶkaiandG2532
√ καί — and, also, even, so then, too, etcConjunction
μέγαmegagreatG3173
√ μέγας — big (literally or figuratively, in a very wide application)AdjectiveNominative Neuter Singular
megas: great Fronted for emphasis. Pulpit (citing Godet) hears in it the crash Jesus leaves ringing in his hearers’ ears at the sermon’s close.
ἐγένετοegenetowasG1096
√ γίνομαι — to cause to be ("gen"-erate), iVerbAorist Indicative Middle3rd Person Singular
τὸtovvvG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleNominative Neuter Singular
τῆςtēsvvvG3588
√ ὁ — the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)ArticleGenitive Feminine Singular
οἰκίαςoikiasvvvG3614
√ οἰκία — properly, residence (abstractly), but usually (concretely) an abode (literally or figuratively)NounGenitive Feminine Singular
ἐκείνηςekeinēs[its]G1565
√ ἐκεῖνος — that one (or (neuter) thing)Demonstrative PronounGenitive Feminine Singular
ῥῆγμαrhēgmadestructionG4485
√ ῥῆγμα — something torn, iNounNominative Neuter Singular
rhēgma: breach, ruin The last word of the Sermon on the Plain in Greek order. Standard lexica list no other New Testament occurrence.

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i. The title without the obedience — Luke 6:46

The Sermon on the Plain closes with a question rather than a command: Τί δέ με καλεῖτε Κύριε κύριε, καὶ οὐ ποιεῖτε ἃ λέγω; Two present-tense habits stand side by side: calling (kaleite) and not doing (ou poieite). Benson asks what “fair professions” can avail without “a life answerable thereto.” Cambridge hears in it Malachi 1:6, where the LORD of hosts asks where his fear is if he is master. Pulpit reads the appeal as evidence that Jesus had already won wide recognition, and Gill paraphrases what is said as “command,” so that words of lordship without obedience are “of no use.” Poole guards the other flank: hope built on anything but Christ is vain, and hope built on Christ without sincere endeavour to keep his commandments is equally vain.

ii. Coming, hearing, doing — Luke 6:47

One article governs three present participles: the one coming to me, hearing my words, doing them. Jesus promises to set the picture under their eyes (ὑποδείξω). Ellicott notes that Luke alone says the builder “digged deep,” and applies it: not “a passing emotion of assurance” but a process going down through the surface of life. Cambridge sets doeth them beside James 1:22. Geneva names the instrument that reveals the difference: “Affliction at length discerns true godliness from false and feigned godliness.” Pulpit, quoting Augustine through Trench, observes that both builders heard; the wise man is the one who translates hearing into action.

iii. Digging to the rock — Luke 6:48

Luke’s builder ἔσκαψεν καὶ ἐβάθυνεν: dug, then deepened. Cambridge complains that the old English “loses all the picturesque force” and renders “dug, and kept deepening,” then identifies the rock as “Christ and the teaching of Christ” (1 Corinthians 10:4), tested by flood or by fire (1 Corinthians 3:11 to 15). The flood-tide (plēmmyra) bursts on the house and “had no strength to shake it.” Ellicott calls this stronger than Matthew’s “it fell not,” and records that the better manuscripts read “because it had been well built,” a reading the BSB follows. Gill turns the digging into a sinner searching the Scriptures until he finds Christ the rock of ages; Henry says those who “take pains in religion” found their hope upon Christ and are kept through faith.

iv. The house with nothing beneath — Luke 6:49

The second builder also hears and also builds, but χωρὶς θεμελίου, apart from a foundation. The same torrent breaks against it, and immediately it collapses (synepesen), and “great was the breach (rhēgma) of that house,” the final word of the sermon. Ellicott weighs Luke’s “without a foundation” and “on the earth” against Matthew’s “on the sand”; Cambridge reads the sand as “superficial intellectual acceptance”; Gill defines the fault as hearing Christ’s sayings “externally” without obeying. Henry draws the end: only those who “think, speak, and act according to the words of Christ” make sure work for eternity. Pulpit, with Godet, imagines each listener hearing the crash and saying, this disaster will be mine if I prove hypocritical.

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⚙ Read on its own terms, the passage makes Jesus’ words the measure and Jesus himself the destination (“comes to Me”). The difference between the two builders is not hearing, nor building, nor even the storm, which falls identically on both; it is whether they dug down to the rock, which v. 47 defines as doing his words. That does not make obedience the rock. The rock is beneath the builder and prior to him; digging only reaches it. Read with the wider canon (1 Corinthians 3:11; 1 Corinthians 10:4), the rock is Christ, and the doing is the evidence that one is actually standing on him. The tool offers this as a reading to be tested: a faith that names Jesus Lord yet never does what he says is, by his own verdict, a house waiting for its first flood.

Both men heard and both men built; only one dug until he reached the rock.

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The same saying in Matthew: rain, wind and sand verbal / quotation: confirmed

Luke 6:47 to 49 is the Synoptic parallel to Matthew 7:24 to 27, which closes the Sermon on the Mount. The Verifier finds shared lexemes: ποταμός (river), οἰκία (house), οἰκοδομέω (build), with logos and akouō at Matthew 7:24. Ellicott calls it an “all but verbal reproduction” with significant variations: Luke alone has the digging and deepening, “no power to shake,” and “without a foundation”; Matthew has rain, winds and sand. No literary dependence is claimed here beyond the shared saying.

Matthew 7:24 · Matthew 7:25 · Matthew 7:27

basis: Verifier: shared Greek lexemes G4215 potamos (in 17 vv), G3614 oikia (in 85 vv), G1565 ekeinos (Matthew 7:25, 27); G3618 oikodomeō (in 39 vv), G3056 logos, G191 akouō (Matthew 7:24); Synoptic parallel of the same saying, not a quotation of one text by another

Digging in Luke: the vinedresser and the steward verbal / quotation: confirmed

The verb σκάπτω (skaptō, G4626) occurs, by the Verifier’s count, in only 3 verses, all Lukan: here, the vinedresser who will “dig around” the barren fig tree (Luke 13:8), and the unjust steward who says “to dig I have not strength” (Luke 16:3). The steward link is doubled by ἰσχύω (G2480): the steward has no strength to dig, the flood has no strength to shake the house that was dug. ⚙ Read together (a fallible observation): digging is lowly, patient labor; the steward refuses it, the vinedresser undertakes it to give the barren tree one more year, and the wise builder takes it on himself.

Luke 13:8 · Luke 16:3

basis: Verifier: rare shared lexeme G4626 skaptō (in 3 vv) with both refs; Luke 16:3 also shares G2480 ischyō (in 28 vv). The verbal link is confirmed; the theological reading across the three is machine synthesis

The foundation laid: Paul’s master builder structural / thematic: confirmed

Paul’s “as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation” and “other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ” use the same pair τίθημι + θεμέλιος found in Luke 6:48. Henry and Cambridge both bring 1 Corinthians 3 to bear on this parable, and Cambridge adds the testing “by fire” (3:13 to 15) beside Luke’s testing by flood. Paul is not quoting Luke; the link is shared vocabulary within a shared building motif.

1 Corinthians 3:10 · 1 Corinthians 3:11

basis: Verifier: shared Greek lexemes G2310 themelios (in 15 vv) and G5087 tithēmi (in 96 vv); shared foundation motif, no quotation claim

The foundation without the finish: the tower builder structural / thematic: confirmed

In Luke 14:29 the would-be builder “has laid a foundation and is not able to finish,” using τίθημι, θεμέλιος and ἰσχύω, the same trio as Luke 6:48. Luke frames discipleship twice as a building project: here the danger is no foundation, there it is a foundation without counting the cost. Both press toward completed obedience.

Luke 14:29

basis: Verifier: shared Greek lexemes G2310 themelios (in 15 vv), G5087 tithēmi (in 96 vv), G2480 ischyō (in 28 vv); a shared Lukan building motif, not a cross-quotation

Doers of the word, not hearers only structural / thematic: confirmed

Cambridge links v. 47’s “doeth them” to James 1:22 and John 13:17. James uses different nouns (poiētai, “doers”; akroatai, “hearers”) from Luke’s participles poiōn and akouōn, so there is no shared Strong’s number; the bond is the same hearing-and-doing pattern, with James likewise warning of self-deception (and of the man who looks in a mirror and forgets).

James 1:22 · John 13:17

basis: Recorded by Cambridge (v. 47); hearing-versus-doing pattern with cognate but distinct lexemes, so not tiered verbal

“If I be a master, where is my fear?” structural / thematic: confirmed

Cambridge sets “why call ye me Lord, Lord” beside Malachi 1:6, where the LORD of hosts confronts priests who honor him with titles and despise him in practice. This is a cross-Testament link (Greek Luke, Hebrew Malachi), so no shared Strong’s number can ground it; the correspondence is the pattern of lip honor without obedience. ⚙ The resonance has weight: the title Jesus receives is the very one the LORD claims in Malachi.

Malachi 1:6

basis: Cross-Testament (Greek to Hebrew): no shared Strong’s possible; pattern link recorded by Cambridge (v. 46), no quotation claim

The wall daubed with untempered mortar structural / thematic: confirmed

⚙ Ezekiel 13:10 to 14 pictures a wall built by false prophets and plastered over; the LORD sends overflowing rain and stormy wind, the wall falls, and its foundation is laid bare. The shape is close to Luke 6:49: a structure that looks sound, a flood, sudden collapse exposing what lay beneath. Cambridge adds Proverbs 12:7, “the wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.” This is a cross-Testament motif link offered by the tool (Ezekiel) and by Cambridge (Proverbs); it claims no verbal dependence.

Ezekiel 13:14 · Proverbs 12:7

basis: Cross-Testament (Greek to Hebrew): no shared Strong’s possible; flood-and-collapse motif (Ezekiel, proposed by the tool) and the standing house of the righteous (Proverbs 12:7, recorded by Cambridge)

⚙Christ in the Unittypology · verify

AI-generated reading; weigh it against the text.

The Rock is Christ ancient/widely-held

⚙ The rock under the wise man’s house is not named in Luke 6:48, but the sentence that frames it is: “every one who comes to Me.” Cambridge says outright “The rock is Christ and the teaching of Christ,” citing 1 Corinthians 10:4; Henry calls Christ “the Rock of Ages,” adding “other foundation can no man lay” (1 Corinthians 3:11); Gill has the sinner dig until he finds Christ, “the foundation which God has laid.” Behind them stands the Old Testament confession of the LORD as rock (Psalm 18:2) and the tested cornerstone laid in Zion (Isaiah 28:16), which 1 Peter 2:6 applies to Christ. This is the widely-held Christian reading.

1 Corinthians 10:4 · 1 Corinthians 3:11 · Isaiah 28:16 · 1 Peter 2:6 · Psalm 18:2

The Lord whose words decide the judgment ancient/widely-held

⚙ Jesus accepts the title Kyrios (v. 46) and does not correct it; he faults only the disobedience. He then makes his own words (v. 47, mou tōn logōn) the line on which every life stands or falls in the coming flood, the place the Law held in Deuteronomy’s blessings for hearing and doing. Matthew’s parallel ends with the crowds astonished that he taught “as one having authority” (Matthew 7:28 to 29), and Jesus later says “my words shall not pass away” (Luke 21:33). The voices read the flood variously: Poole as affliction, temptation and finally death (“when God taketh away his soul”); Gill as Satan’s temptations, the world’s persecutions and false teaching; Benson, quoting Doddridge, as the day when heaven and earth flee from the face of him who sits on the throne. That Christ speaks here as the divine Lawgiver and Judge is the widely-held reading.

Matthew 7:28-29 · Luke 21:33 · Deuteronomy 28:1

The unshaken One and the unshaken house novel

⚙ The torrent “had no strength to shake” (σαλεῦσαι) the house on the rock. Peter, preaching Christ’s resurrection, quotes Psalm 16:8 in Greek: “he is at my right hand, that I should not be shaken” (saleuthō, Acts 2:25), applying it to Jesus, whom death could not hold. The tool proposes that the house cannot be shaken because it rests on the One who himself was not shaken through death. This connection is the tool’s own (no commentator in the brief draws it) and should be tested.

Acts 2:25 · Psalm 16:8

Apparatus & Provenance

The biblical text is the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain (CC0). Hebrew/Greek text, transliteration, morphology and Strong’s are transcribed from the Berean interlinear (CC0) + Strong’s lexicons (PD); the literal renderings, divergence notes, word notes and all synthesis are this tool’s own work (⚙) — fallible; verify them.

Named voices, quoted verbatim from public-domain works:

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, — (1880s)
  • Charles Ellicott, Commentary for English Readers (1878)
  • Geneva Study Bible, Marginal Notes (1599)
  • John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1746–63)
  • Joseph Benson, Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1810s)
  • Matthew Henry, Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible (1706)
  • Matthew Poole, Annotations upon the Holy Bible (1685)
  • The Pulpit Commentary, Spence & Exell, eds. (1880s)

Text. In v. 48 the interlinear and BSB follow the reading dia to kalōs oikodomēsthai autēn (“because it had been well built”). Ellicott and Cambridge (citing ℵ and L) record that later manuscripts read “for it was founded upon the rock,” likely assimilated to Matthew 7:25. In v. 46 the interlinear lists de first; in Greek order it follows Ti. In v. 49 the interlinear assigns synepesen to G4098 piptō; the surface form is the compound with syn.

Sources. Barnes and JFB give only cross-references to their Matthew 7 notes; Poole’s entries for vv. 47 to 49 refer back to v. 46. Henry’s concise note covers 6:37 to 49 as a block and repeats under each verse. Pulpit’s v. 47 entry quotes Augustine, Plumptre, Trench and Godet; those words are theirs as mediated by Pulpit. One Pulpit entry is capped in the brief.

Uncertain. The statements that bathynō, plēmmyra and rhēgma occur nowhere else in the New Testament and prosrēgnymi only in vv. 48 to 49 rest on standard lexica, not on a Verifier frequency in this brief. The weight of the present-versus-aorist participle shift between vv. 47 and 49 is debated. The Ezekiel 13 thread and the Acts 2:25 Christ reading are the tool’s own proposals.

✦ = human, public-domain source, quoted and named. ⚙ = machine synthesis, to be verified. Flagged cross-references are left visible on purpose — the verifier working in the open. “Search the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” (Acts 17:11)