Matthew 16:11

How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

In Context

10Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

12Then they saw that it was not the leaven of bread which he had in mind, but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

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Cross References

Mark 4:40And he said to them, Why are you full of fear? have you still no faith?

Luke 12:56O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?

Matthew Henry on Matthew 16:6-13

Of the Leaven of the Pharisees. 5 And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. 6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. 7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. 8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? 9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five… Read the whole commentary →

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