For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.
“We will not listen to what you claim the Lord has spoken to us!
“Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice – I will show you what he is like:
The experts in the law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a reason to accuse him.
For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.
For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.