Luke 12:1
At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.
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2But nothing is covered up, which will not come to light, or secret, which will not be made clear.
Cross References
2 Kings 7:17And the king gave authority to that captain, on whose arm he was supported, to have control over the doorway into the town; but he was crushed to death there under the feet of the people, as the man of God had said when the king went down to him.
Job 27:8For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?
Mark 8:15And he said to them, Take care to be on the watch against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.
Luke 5:15But news of him went out all the more, in every direction, and great numbers of people came together to give hearing to his words and to be made well from their diseases.
Luke 11:44A curse is on you! for you are like the resting-places of dead men, which are not seen, and men go walking over them without knowledge of it.
Matthew Henry on Luke 12:1
In this chapter we have divers excellent discourses of our Saviour's upon various occasions, many of which are to the same purport with what we had in Matthew upon other the like occasions; for we may suppose that our Lord Jesus preached the same doctrines, and pressed the same duties, at several times, in several companies, and that one of the evangelists took them as he delivered them at one time and another at another time; and we need thus to have precept upon precept, line upon line. Here, I. Christ warns his… Read the whole commentary →