1In 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.
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Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: …
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)We find here, I. A vast auditory that was got together to hear Christ preach. The scribes and Pharisees sought to accuse him , and do him mischief; but the people, who were not under the bias of their prejudices and jealousies, still admired him, attended on him, and did him honour. In the mean time (Luke 12:1), while he was in the Pharisee’s house, contending with them that sought to ensnare him,…
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