6Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
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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.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
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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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