Matthew 7:4

How wilt thou say? Compare Luke 6:42.

Let me pull. This offer is not prompted so much by a desire to be helpful as to call attention to the fact that the mote is there and to the presumed wisdom and skill of the person making the offer.

A beam. Completely forgetful of the times that he himself has erred, and of his own weaknesses, the hypocrite becomes impatient with his erring brother. How often so-called Christians express profound indignation at the course others have taken, or are presumed to have taken, only to have later events reveal that they themselves are guilty of the very sins of which they accuse others. This was true of the Pharisees who brought to Jesus the woman taken in adultery (John 8:3-11; DA 461), and also of Simon when he judged Mary (Luke 7:36-39; DA 566). The Christian who discovers his brother in a fault will “restore such an one in the spirit of meekness,” considering that he himself may have been tempted and may have fallen on that very point, or may do so in the future (Gal. 6:1).