Luke 12:1

Now in the meantime, as an innumerable crowd had gathered together so that they were stepping on one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

In Context

2For there is nothing covered that shall not be unveiled, and nothing secret that shall not be made known.

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Cross References

Mark 8:15Then He charged them, saying, “Look out, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

Luke 5:15But the report about Him spread all the more; and great crowds came together to hear, and to be healed by Him from their sicknesses.

Luke 11:44Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like unmarked graves, and the men walking over them do not know 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 →

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