Luke 12:1

Meanwhile the people had gathered in thousands, so that they trod on one another, when Jesus, addressing himself to his disciples, began by saying to them, “Be on your guard against the leaven – that is, the hypocrisy – of the Pharisees.

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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

2There is nothing, however covered up, which will not be uncovered, nor anything kept secret which will not become known.

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Cross References

Mark 8:15So Jesus gave them this warning. “Take care,” he said, “beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

Luke 5:15However, the story about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came together to listen to him, and to be cured of their illnesses;

Luke 11:44Alas for you! You are like unsuspected graves, over which men walk unawares.”

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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