Luke 6:39,40

And he spake a parable, &c. Our Lord sometimes used parables, when he know plain and open declarations would too much inflame the passions of his hearers. It is for this reason that he uses this parable. Can the blind lead the blind Can the scribes teach this way, which they know not themselves? Will not they and their scholars perish together? The disciple is not above his master Can they make their disciples any better than themselves? If the master be ignorant, foolish, and wicked, will not the scholar, or disciple, be so likewise? But every one that is perfect Or, perfected, as κατηρτισμενος means: that is, perfectly instructed by Christ's doctrine, and perfectly renewed by his grace: whose mind is fully enlightened, and his heart entirely changed: made wise unto salvation by God's word, and endued with all the graces of his Spirit; shall be as his Master Shall come to the measure of the stature of his Master's fulness, shall be conformed to the image of God's Son, and as he was, shall be in this world, 1 John 4:17.