Because, if any is, a word-hearer, and not a doer, the same, is like unto a man observing his natural face in a mirror,—
Every one coming unto me, and hearkening unto my words, and doing them, I will suggest to you, whom he is like:
As touching the word which thou hast spoken unto us, in the name of Yahweh we are not going to hearken unto thee;
Now the Scribes and the Pharisees were narrowly watching him, whether, on the Sabbath, he healeth,—that they might find whereof to accuse him.
For we see, as yet, through a dim window, obscurely, but, then, face to face: as yet, I gain knowledge, in part, but, then, shall I fully know, even as I was also fully known.
For he observed himself, and is gone away, and, straightway, it hath escaped him,—what manner of man, he was!