31.) So also Hillel addressed a proselyte thus, "What is hateful to thee, do not thou to thy neighbour." Several other expressions of Jesus were, it appears from the Talmud, proverbial expressions in use among the Jews.

For instance, the original of that saying recorded Matthew vii.2.

"With whatsoever measure ye mete," &c., is found in the Talmud of Babylon (Sanhedrim fol.

100, Sotah, chapter 4, 7, 8,9.) "With whatsoever measure any one metes it shall be measured to him.

So also the original of that expression of "Cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother's eye is to be found in the Talmud*.
What is called by Christians "the Lord's Prayer," is merely a few clauses taken from Jewish prayers, and put together.