Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
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Gill's Exposition
He is like a man which built an house,.... That is, intended to build one, having drawn the scheme of it in his mind, and provided materials, and fixed upon the spot of ground:
and digged deep, and…
See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luk 6:21 That hunger now - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more fully…
Adam Clarke
I will show you - Ὑποδειξω, I will show you plainly. I will enable you fully to comprehend my meaning on this subject by the following parable. See this word explained Mat 3:7 (note).
All these sayings of Christ we had before in Matthew; some of them in ch. 7, others in other places. They were sayings that Christ often used; they needed only to be mentioned, it was easy to apply…
Cambridge Bible
and doeth them Joh 13:17. "Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only," Jas 1:22 .
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