Matthew shared how Jesus told His disciples, “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.” Jesus continued, “And why behold you the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?”, and in chapter seven and verse four of his book, Matthew shared how Jesus asked His disciples, “how will you say to your brother, let me pull out the mote” where we read:
Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye;
and, behold, a beam is in your own eye?
The verse reads, “Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye;” Matthew began with the words, “or how” or “in what way” “will you say” which means “shall the disciples utter, declare and proclaim” “to your brother” or “toward the disciples' fellow believers who are united to another by the bond of affection”, “let me” or “allow and permit the disciple themselves to” “pull out” which means “to cast, drive and send out” “the mote” or “the dry stalk, twig or speck” “out of your eye” which refers to “from the disciples' own personal eye”. Jesus questioned how the disciples could “say” to their fellow believers, “allow” me to “remove” the “speck” from another's eye.
The verse continues, “and, behold, a beam is in your own eye?” Matthew added the words, “and behold” or “and see, perceive, notice and discern”, “a beam” which means “a stick of timber” “is in your own eye” or “is within the disciples' own personal eyes”. Jesus referred to the “log” within the disciples' eyes which prevented them from seeing another persons “speck” within their eye.
When we consider Matthew's words in this verse, we see how there was a “huge log” within the “eye” of the disciples, and they were to concentrate upon their own “eye” before they “criticized” others. The tendency was for disciples to point out the “errors” in others' eyes while ignoring their own. God desires people to understand they have “huge” problems and errors of their own before they see the “small errors” in others. Jesus Christ, God's Son, knows the best way for people to relate to one another, and before there is “judgment” made about another's error, it will be best to examine one's own flaws.
Next time Jesus tells His disciples, “you hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye” and more, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
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