Jesus Teaching in Parables

³⁹ He also told them a parable: “Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? Won’t they both fall into a pit? ⁴⁰ A disciple is not greater than his teacher, but everyone when fully trained will be like his teacher. ⁴¹ Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own? ⁴² How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while you yourself don’t see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

⁴³ “For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, ⁴⁴ for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles. ⁴⁵ The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

⁴⁶ “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do what I tell you?

⁴⁷ “Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice —I will show you what he is like: ⁴⁸ He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built. ⁴⁹ But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!”