Jesus uses a deliberately extreme image in this passage--that of a plank in somebody's eye--to make a point about the human impulse to judge others while ignoring our own faults. Tend to your own flaws, Jesus teaches, before you get too upset about others'.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207:3&version=NIV
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