Hi everyone. Welcome to Logical Bible Study. In this podcast, we try to do an exegesis of scripture,

so from a Catholic perspective, really diving into the text

and looking at it in quite an academic way. So it's basically a verse by verse study of the Bible.

And in this podcast, we look at the gospel readings that you would encounter at today's mass.

So if you go to Catholic Mass, it moves through the four Gospels on different days of the year.

Every single day you go to Mass and you'll hear a different reading.

And today's reading is from Luke chapter 6 versus 39 to 42.

So as always, we'll read the passage and then our goal is to try and understand what the passage

means in its original context. What should we take

away from this passage? What did Jesus mean? So here's the passage from Luke 6. Jesus told a parable

to the disciples. Can one blind man guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit. The disciple is not superior to his teacher.

The fully trained disciple will always be like his teacher.

Why do you observe the splinter in your brother's eye and never notice the plank in your

own?

How can you say to your brother, brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,

when you cannot see the plank in your own?

Hypocrite, take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough

to take out the splinter that is in your brother's eye.

So that's our passage for today, and we're continuing in the sermon on the plane.

So this is about in the middle of the sermon on the plane, which takes up the bulk of

Luke chapter 6.

Now, we talked about the purpose of the sermon on the plane when we started it a couple of

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