Judging Others...

 

He also told them this parable: "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?

 

A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.

 

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

 

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

 

A Tree and Its Fruit

6:43, 44 pp — Mt 7:16, 18, 20

 

"No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.

 

Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers.

 

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.