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How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the splinter from your eye,' when you yourself don't see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye; then you will see clearly, so that you can remove the splinter from your brother's eye!

When the messengers from Yochanan had gone, Yeshua began speaking to the crowds about Yochanan: "What did you go out into the desert to see? Reeds swaying in the breeze?

No? then what did you go out to see? Someone who was well dressed? But people who dress beautifully and live in luxury are found in kings' palaces.

Nu, so what did you go out to see? A prophet! Yes, and I tell you he's much more than a prophet.

This is the one about whom the Tanakh says, ‘See, I am sending out my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way before you.'

Then, turning to the woman, he said to Shim‘on, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house — you didn't give me water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair!

and he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God; but the rest are taught in parables, so that they may look but not see, and listen but not understand .

"No one who has lit a lamp covers it with a bowl or puts it under a bed; no, he puts it on a stand; so that those coming in may see the light.

Then Yeshua's mother and brothers came to see him, but they couldn't get near him because of the crowd.

It was reported to him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside and want to see you."

and the people came out to see for themselves. They came to Yeshua and found the man out of whom the demons had gone, sitting — dressed and in his right mind — at the feet of Yeshua; and they were frightened.

Herod said, "I had Yochanan beheaded, so who is this about whom I keep hearing such things?" And he began trying to see him.

I tell you the truth, there are some people standing here who will not experience death until they see the Kingdom of God."

Then, turning to the talmidim, he said, privately, "How blessed are the eyes that see what you are seeing!

Indeed, I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see the things you are seeing but did not see them, and to hear the things you are hearing but did not hear them."

"No one who has kindled a lamp hides it or places it under a bowl; rather, he puts it on a stand, so that those coming in may see its light.

Then to the crowds Yeshua said, "When you see a cloud-bank rising in the west, at once you say that a rainstorm is coming;

You will cry and grind your teeth when you see Avraham, Yitz'chak, Ya‘akov and all the prophets inside the Kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown outside.

Look! God is abandoning your house to you! I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of Adonai !' "

But they responded with a chorus of excuses. The first said to him, ‘I've just bought a field, and I have to go out and see it. Please accept my apologies.'