Matthew 16:11

How could you not understand that I was not talking about bread when I told you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?”

Text-Critical English NT

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 loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you collected?

12Then they understood that he had not told them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

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Cross References

Mark 4:40Then he said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”

Luke 12:56Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, so why can you not interpret this present time?

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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