Luke 12:1

Meanwhile the people had come streaming towards Him by tens of thousands, so that they were trampling one another under foot. And now He proceeded to say to His disciples first, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is to say, beware of hypocrisy.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

2There is nothing that is covered up which will not be uncovered, nor hidden which will not become known.

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Cross References

Mark 8:15and when He admonished them, "See to it, be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod,"

Luke 5:15But all the more the report about Him spread abroad, and great multitudes crowded to hear Him and to be cured of their diseases;

Luke 11:44Alas for you! for you are like the tombs which lie hidden, and the people who walk over them are not aware of their existence."

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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