From Nave’s Topical Bible
Mote (a Speck)
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 3Passages listed
- 2Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- A small particleMatthew 7:3–5Luke 6:41Luke 6:42
The passages, in Bible order (3)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 3 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Matthew 7:3–5
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
Commentary on Matthew 7:3–52 voices
And why beholdest thou the mote--"splinter," here very well rendered "mote," denoting any small fault. that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?--denoting the much greater fault which we overlook in ourselves.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
In particular, why do you open your eyes to any fault of your brother, while you yourself are guilty of a much greater? The mote - The word properly signifies a splinter or shiver of wood.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, 1755Evangelical
- Luke 6:41
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
Commentary on Luke 6:412 voices
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
Those with a very ill grace censure the faults of others who are not aware of their own faults. It is very absurd for any to pretend to be so quick-sighted as to spy small faults in others, like a mote in the eye, when they are themselves so perfectly past feeling as not to perceive a beam in their own eye.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Luke 6:42
How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Commentary on Luke 6:422 voices
Those with a very ill grace censure the faults of others who are not aware of their own faults. It is very absurd for any to pretend to be so quick-sighted as to spy small faults in others, like a mote in the eye, when they are themselves so perfectly past feeling as not to perceive a beam in their own eye.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
But these words are applicable to all, and especially to teachers, who while they punish the least sins of those who are put under them, leave their own unpunished. Wherefore the Lord calls them hypocrites, because to this end judge they the sins of others, that they themselves might seem just. Hence it follows, Thou hypocrite, first cast the beam out of thine own eye, &c.
Theophylact of Ohrid· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 1107Patristic