Matthew 6:23

6:23 But if your eye is diseased, ¹  your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Matthew 7:3-4

7:3 Why ²  do you see the speck ³  in your brother’s eye, but fail to see ⁴  the beam of wood ⁵  in your own? 7:4 Or how can you say ⁶  to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own?

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¹ tn Or “if your eye is sick” (L&N 23.149).

sn There may be a slight wordplay here, as this term can also mean “evil,” so the figure uses a term that points to the real meaning of being careful as to what one pays attention to or looks at.

² tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

³ sn The term translated speck refers to a small piece of wood, chaff, or straw; see L&N 3.66.

⁴ tn Or “do not notice.”

⁵ sn The term beam of wood refers to a very big piece of wood, the main beam of a building, in contrast to the speck in the other’s eye (L&N 7.78).

⁶ tn Grk “how will you say?”