15And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
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Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? …
Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
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? …
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
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. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-21)Still Christ is upon motion; now he visits the parts of Dalmanutha, that no corner of the land of Israel might say that they had not had his presence with them. He came thither by ship (Mark 8:10); but, meeting with occasions of dispute there, and not with opportunities of doing good, he entered into the ship again (Mark 8:13), and came back. In these verses, we are told, I. How he refused to grat…
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