“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? — the speck/plank contrast is the sermon's most memorable image. The speck in the brother's eye (a real, genuine problem) contrasted with the plank in one's own eye (a much larger problem) communicates the self-deception of focusing on others' faults while ignoring one's own. The hypocrite's hypocrisy is not deliberate dishonesty but the distorting effect of the plank on vision.
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