11How 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?
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Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
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?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-12)We have here Christ’s discourse with his disciples concerning bread, in which, as in many other discourses, he speaks to them of spiritual things under a similitude, and they misunderstand him of carnal things. The occasion of it was, their forgetting to victual their ship, and to take along with them provisions for their family on the other side of the water; usually they carried bread along with…
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