Or how can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, when there is the log in your own eye? The dialogue is the comic fulfillment of the absurdity: offering to help remove the speck in another's eye while carrying a log in one's own. The log impairs vision — the person who cannot see clearly because of their own moral failure cannot accurately perceive another's moral failure, let alone help to address it. The correction of others' faults is not prohibited (verse 5 implies it) but requires the prior work of self-examination and self-correction. Galatians 6:1 says those who are spiritual should restore the one caught in transgression gently, considering themselves, lest they too be tempted — the same self-awareness Jesus requires.

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