Matthew 7:25
Matthew 7:25 is the twenty-fifth verse of the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This verse continues the Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:
- And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and
- beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
The World English Bible translates the passage as:
- The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat
- on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.
The previous verse introduced the wise man who built his house on a rock, the rock being a metaphor for the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.
Floods were a very real problem in the region. Many wadis that had been dry for years could be hit with a flash flood after a large storm.[1] Floods occur as a disaster again in Matthew 25, and many times elsewhere in the Bible, with the Great Flood being the most prominent.[2] The rain in this verse is an eschatological metaphor.[2]
References
- ↑ R.T. France (11 July 2007). The Gospel of Matthew. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-8028-2501-8.
- 1 2 Rudolf Schnackenburg (2002). The Gospel of Matthew. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-8028-4438-5.
| Preceded by Matthew 7:24 |
Gospel of Matthew Chapter 7 |
Succeeded by Matthew 7:26 |
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