By your endurance you will gain your lives.

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing fall away.