Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 7:4-5

"Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother`s eye." — Matthew 7:4-5 (ASV)

Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

There may be, dear friends, a great deal of hypocrisy about us of which we are not aware. For when a man sees a fault in another and tells him of it, he says, "You know I am a very plain-spoken person; there is no hypocrisy about me."

Well, but there is. And, according to the Savior's description, this may be sheer hypocrisy.

This is because, in the meantime, in your own eye there is something worse than what you see in your fellow, and this you pass over. And this is simply untruthful dealing, and it amounts to hypocrisy.

If you were really so zealous to make people see, you would begin by being zealous to see yourself. And if you were so concerned to have all eyes cleansed from impurity, you would begin by cleansing your own, or seeking to have them cleansed.