Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
The mote (to karfov). Not dust, but a piece of dried wood or chaff, splinter (Weymouth, Moffatt), speck (Goodspeed), a very small particle that may irritate.
The beam (thn dokon). A log on which planks in the house rest (so papyri), joist, rafter, plank (Moffatt), pole sticking out grotesquely. Probably a current proverb quoted by Jesus like our people in glass houses throwing stones. Tholuck quotes an Arabic proverb: "How seest thou the splinter in thy brother's eye, and seest not the cross-beam in thine eye?"
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 7:5
Matthew 13:3
Luke 6:41
Hebrews 3:1
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