COMMENT: Mt. 7:3 The Parable of the Mote and the Beam

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It is interesting to compare the translations of the Verse Mt. 7:3.

The Jerusalem Bible variant speaks  better  of Jesus language of his foster-father, Joseph’s carpenter work shop, ‘splinter' and 'plank'. 
Greek Strong Numbers to English added synonyms  'a dry twig or straw:- mote', 'a stick of timber:- beam'.

Matthew 7:3

(AMP)  Why do you stare from without at the very small particle that is in your brother's eye but do not become aware of and consider the beam of timber that is in your own eye?

(ASV)  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

(Darby)  But why lookest thou on the mote that is in the eye of thy brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye?

(DRB)  And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye?

(GNB)  Why, then, do you look at the speck in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the log in your own eye?

(GNT)  τί δὲ βλέπεις τὸ κάρφος τὸ ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου, τὴν δὲ ἐν τῷ σῷ ὀφθαλμῷ δοκὸν οὐ κατανοεῖς;

(KJV)  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

(KJV+)  And^G1161 why^G5101 beholdest^G991 thou the^G3588 mote^G2595 that^G3588 is in^G1722 thy^G4675 brother's^G80 eye,^G3788 but^G1161 considerest^G2657 not^G3756 the^G3588 beam^G1385 that is in^G1722 thine own^G4674 eye?^G3788

(NAS77)  "And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

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It is interesting to compare the translations of the Verse Mt. 7:3.

The Jerusalem Bible variant speaks  better  of Jesus language of his foster-foster, Joseph’s carpenter work shop, ‘splinter and plank.

Matthew 7:3

(AMP)  Why do you stare from without at the very small particle that is in your brother's eye but do not become aware of and consider the beam of timber that is in your own eye?

(ASV)  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

(Darby)  But why lookest thou on the mote that is in the eye of thy brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye?

(DRB)  And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye?

(GNB)  Why, then, do you look at the speck in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the log in your own eye?

(GNT)  τί δὲ βλέπεις τὸ κάρφος τὸ ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου, τὴν δὲ ἐν τῷ σῷ ὀφθαλμῷ δοκὸν οὐ κατανοεῖς;

(KJV)  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

(KJV+)  And^G1161 why^G5101 beholdest^G991 thou the^G3588 mote^G2595 that^G3588 is in^G1722 thy^G4675 brother's^G80 eye,^G3788 but^G1161 considerest^G2657 not^G3756 the^G3588 beam^G1385 that is in^G1722 thine own^G4674 eye?^G3788

(NAS77)  "And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?