7:24 “Everyone 1 who hears these words of mine and does them is like 2 a wise man 3 who built his house on rock. 7:25 The rain fell, the flood 4 came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.
1 tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.
2 tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.
3 tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anhr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") in vv. 48 and 49.
4 tn Grk “the rivers.”
5 tn Or “and the power of death” (taking the reference to the gates of Hades as a metonymy).
sn In the OT, Hades was known as Sheol. It is the place where the unrighteous will reside (Matt 11:23; Luke 16:23; Rev 20:13-14). Some translations render this by its modern equivalent, “hell”; others see it as a reference to the power of death.