Luke 6:41

6:41 Why ¹  do you see the speck ²  in your brother’s eye, but fail to see ³  the beam of wood ⁴  in your own?

Luke 15:30

15:30 But when this son of yours ⁵  came back, who has devoured ⁶  your assets with prostitutes, ⁷  you killed the fattened calf ⁸  for him!’

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¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

² sn A speck (also twice in v. 42) refers to a small piece of wood, chaff, or straw (L&N 3.66).

³ tn Or “do not notice.”

⁴ sn The beam of wood (also twice in v. 42) refers to a big piece of wood, the main beam of a building, in contrast to the speck in the other’s eye (L&N 7.78).

⁵ sn Note the younger son is not “my brother” but this son of yours (an expression with a distinctly pejorative nuance).

⁶ sn This is another graphic description. The younger son’s consumption had been like a glutton. He had both figuratively and literally devoured the assets which were given to him.

⁷ sn The charge concerning the prostitutes is unproven, but essentially the older brother accuses the father of committing an injustice by rewarding his younger son’s unrighteous behavior.

⁸ sn See note on the phrase “fattened calf” in v. 23.