³⁹And he also told them a parable: “Surely a blind person cannot lead the blind, can he?^* Will they not both fall into a pit? ⁴⁰A disciple is not superior to his^* teacher, but everyone, when he^* is fully trained, will be like his teacher. ⁴¹And why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the beam of wood that is in your own eye? ⁴²How are you able to say to your brother, “Brother, allow me to remove the speck that is in your eye,” while^* you yourself do not see the beam of wood in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye!

The Sermon on the Plain: Trees and Their Fruit

⁴³“For there is no good tree that produces bad fruit, nor on the other hand a bad tree that produces good fruit, ⁴⁴for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorn plants, nor are grapes harvested from thorn bushes. ⁴⁵The good person out of the good treasury of his heart brings forth good, and the evil person out of his^* evil treasury^* brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

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Footnotes

*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “can he”
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“is fully trained”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“see”) which is understood as temporal
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*The word “treasury” here is an understood repetition from earlier in the verse