Luke 6:46-49

Luke 6:46-49. This close is the same as in Matthew. Luke 6:45 here answers to Matthew 7:21-23, omitting the allusion to the last day, and taking the form of a direct exhortation.

Digged and went deep (Luke 6:48), i.e. digged again and again, until he reached the proper foundation.

Because it had been well builded. This reading, now generally accepted by scholars, complements the expression of Matthew: ‘founded upon the rock.' Yet even here the main reference is to the foundation. Luke 6:49 here is even more graphic than the parallel passage.

On the earth without a foundation, is = ‘on the sand.' Off the true Rock there is no foundation, all is sand.

Straightway belongs to all that follows.

It fell in, in a heap.

The ruin, breach, the result of ‘the fall' (Matthew). See on Matthew 7:24-27.