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Epiphany Season · Year A

Ninth Sunday after the Epiphany

March 1, 2026

The Cottage by the Roadside, Stormy Sky, Jules Dupré
The Cottage by the Roadside, Stormy Sky, Jules Dupré, c. 1860Art Institute of Chicago
A Barbizon landscape with a small house under a heavy sky, the paint laid on thickly and the weather doing the work.The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.Art Institute of ChicagoFounded in 1879 as both a museum and a school, and the home of American Gothic and of a famous Impressionist collection.Art Institute of Chicago
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelMatt. 7:21-29Mt 7:21-29
EpistleRom. 1:16-17, 3:22b-28, (29-31)Rom 1:16-17, 3:22b-28, (29-31)
Old TestamentDeut. 11:18-21, 26-28Dt 11:18-21, 26-28
PsalterPs. 31:1-5, 19-24Ps 31:1-5, 19-24

Overview & Insights

"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock." (Matthew 7:24)

This is the close of the Sermon on the Mount, warning that entering the kingdom takes doing the will of God and not merely saying 'Lord, Lord.' Jesus likens the obedient hearer to a house built on rock and the disobedient one to a house built on sand.

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Commentary

Commentary on Matthew 7:21-29Commentary on Mt 7:21-29 Working Preacher

Luther Seminary's lectionary commentary on doing God's will versus merely confessing Jesus as Lord.

Matthew 7 CommentaryMt 7 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse notes covering the two builders and the crowd's response to Jesus' authority.

Matthew 7:21 CommentariesMt 7:21 Commentaries BibleHub

Pulpit, Barnes, and other classic commentaries gathered for the passage.

Matthew 7 ResourcesMt 7 Resources Precept Austin

Precept Austin's collected commentaries, sermons, and word studies on Matthew 7.

Background & Word Study

Matthew 7:21 InterlinearMt 7:21 Interlinear BibleHub

Greek text with parsing and Strong's numbers for close reading of the verbs of hearing and doing.

Overview: Gospel of MatthewOverview: Gospel of Mt BibleProject

Animated overview of Matthew's structure and the teaching blocks the Sermon on the Mount belongs to.

The Law BibleProject

Explains how the Torah frames Jesus' teaching, the backdrop to fulfilling righteousness in the sermon.

The Messiah BibleProject

Traces the messianic hope behind the crowd's amazement that Jesus taught with authority.

The Church Fathers

Catena: Matthew 7Catena: Mt 7 Catena

Patristic comments chained verse by verse to Matthew 7.

Worship & Prayers

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