38aGive, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bbosom. For cwith the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
39 And He spoke a parable to them: a“Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into the ditch?
40aA disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher.
41aAnd why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the plank in your own eye?
42Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye.
The disciple is not above his master (ouk estin maqhthv uper ton didaskalon). Literally, a learner (or pupil) is not above the teacher. Precisely so in Matthew 10:24 where "slave" is added with "lord." But here Luke adds: "But everyone when he is perfected shall be as his master" (kathrtismenov de pav estai wv o didaskalov autou). The state of completion, perfect passive participle, is noted in kathrtismenov. The word is common for mending broken things or nets (Matthew 4:21) or men (Galatians 6:1). So it is a long process to get the pupil patched up to the plane of his teacher.
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