κατανοέω

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me?

When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Moses trembled, and dared not look.

When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.

When it was day, they didn’t recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.

Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.