Luke 12:1
Then, as great crowds were standing so close that they were stepping on one another, he began to say to his disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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2 Kings 7:17Then the king stationed that leader, on whose hand he leaned, at the gate. And the crowd trampled him at the entrance of the gate. And he died, in accord with what the man of God had said when the king had descended to him.
Job 27:8For what hope is there for the hypocrite, if he greedily plunders and God does not free his soul?
Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling has taken hold of the hypocrites. Who among you is able to live with a devouring fire? Who among you will live with an everlasting flame?
Mark 8:15And he instructed them, saying: “Consider and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.”
Luke 5:15Yet word of him traveled around all the more. And great crowds came together, so that they might listen and be cured by him from their infirmities.
Luke 11:44Woe to you! For you are like graves that are not noticeable, so that men walk over them without realizing 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 →