2For with the judgment you judge, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
4Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when behold, the log is in your own eye?
5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
6Do not give what is holy to dogs, nor throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces.
Ask, Seek, and Knock
7Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
8For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
9Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
10Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake?
11If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him.
12So in everything, whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
The Two Ways
13Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many.
14For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Known by Their Fruit
15Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
16You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
17In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20So then, by their fruits you will know them.
A Warning to False Disciples
21Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’
23And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
The Wise and Foolish Builders
24Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
25And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.
26And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and its fall was great.
28And when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,
29for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
Where this passage connects across Scripture — each link typed and reasoned, part of the AIT Bible Nexus Chart.
On Judging Others
parallelLuke 6:37— Luke's Sermon on the Plain gives the parallel teaching against judging with the same measure-for-measure principle.
parallelLuke 6:41— Luke contains the same speck-and-log illustration nearly verbatim.
parallelMark 4:24— Shares the distinctive saying about the measure you use being measured to you.
parallelMark 4:21— The measure-for-measure saying.
thematicJames 4:11— Both warn against judging others, presenting judgment as usurping a role that belongs to God.
Ask, Seek, and Knock
parallelLuke 11:9— Luke gives the same ask/seek/knock saying and the good-gifts-from-the-Father argument.
parallelLuke 6:31— The Golden Rule appears in Luke's sermon in near-identical wording.
parallelLuke 6:27— The Golden Rule appears in both sermons.
parallelLuke 11:1— Same 'ask, seek, knock' saying with near-identical wording.
echoed inJames 1:2— Both promise that asking of God yields receiving.
thematicJames 1:13— Both affirm that good gifts come down from the Father.
thematicLeviticus 19:18— Jesus summarizes 'the Law and the Prophets' with the love-of-neighbor ethic rooted in Leviticus.
The Two Ways
parallelLuke 13:24— Luke has the parallel exhortation to enter through the narrow door/gate.
parallelLuke 13:22— Jesus' teaching about striving to enter through the narrow door/gate to life.
thematicDeuteronomy 30:15— The two ways—one to life, one to destruction—develops the Deuteronomic choice between life and death.
thematicPsalms 1:1— Both contrast the two ways—the way of the righteous versus the way that leads to destruction/perishing.
Known by Their Fruit
parallelLuke 6:43— Luke gives the same teaching that trees are known by their fruit with the thornbush/fig imagery.
parallelMatthew 12:33— Same 'a tree is known by its fruit' teaching given in the Sermon on the Mount.
echoed inActs 20:17— The warning about fierce wolves attacking the flock echoes Jesus' warning of false prophets who are ravenous wolves.
allusionMatthew 3:10— Repeats John the Baptist's saying about every fruitless tree being cut down and thrown into the fire.
echoed inMatthew 3:1— The saying that every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire is repeated in the Sermon on the Mount.
thematicJames 3:1— The image of a tree producing fruit according to its kind (figs from a fig tree) parallels Jesus' teaching that a tree is known by its fruit.
A Warning to False Disciples
parallelLuke 6:46— Luke has the parallel rebuke of those who call 'Lord, Lord' but do not obey.
parallelLuke 13:27— Luke has the parallel 'I do not know you; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.'
parallelLuke 13:22— The rejection formula 'I do not know you... depart from me, workers of unrighteousness/lawlessness' matches Matthew's Sermon.
echoed inMatthew 25:1— Same motif of crying 'Lord, Lord' and being answered with a declaration of not being known/departure.
allusionPsalms 6:8— Jesus quotes the psalmist's dismissal 'depart from me, you workers of lawlessness/iniquity.'
echoed inPsalms 6:1— Jesus' 'depart from me, you workers of lawlessness' echoes the psalmist's dismissal of workers of iniquity.
The Wise and Foolish Builders
parallelLuke 6:47— Luke concludes his sermon with the same parable of the wise and foolish builders.
parallelLuke 6:46— Parallel parable of the two builders on rock and on sand.