Luke 6:41

introduces a thought which in Mt. stands in immediate connection with that in Luke 6:37 (Matthew 7:1-3). If the view of Luke 6:40, above suggested, be correct, then this and the next verses may also be understood as referring still to the relations between teacher and taught in the Church, rather than to the vices of the Pharisees, which in Lk.'s version of the sermon are very much left out of account. Censoriousness is apt to be a fault of young converts, and doubtless it was rife enough in the apostolic age. On the parable of the mote and the beam vide on Matthew 7:3-5.