Mark 8:15
13 And He left them, got back into the boat, and crossed to the other side.
14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat.
“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”
16 So they began to discuss with one another the fact that they had no bread.
17 Aware of their conversation, Jesus asked them, “Why are you debating about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Do you have such hard hearts?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”
- KJV
- And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
- WEB
- He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”
- ASV
- And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.
- DARBY
- And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and [of] the leaven of Herod.
- BLB
- And He was instructing them, saying, “Watch! Take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”
- ÅB
- Og han befalte dem: Se dere for, ta dere i vare for fariseernes surdeig og for Herodes' surdeig!
- OTB
- Han advarte dem og sa: "Vokt dere for fariseernes surdeig og Herodes' surdeig."
- B1930
- Og han bød dem: Se eder for, ta eder i vare for fariseernes surdeig og for Herodes' surdeig!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 5:6–8
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
Read in contextMatthew 16:6
“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Read in contextMatthew 16:11–12
How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Read in contextMark 12:13
Later, they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to catch Jesus in His words.
Read in contextLuke 12:1–2
In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Read in contextProverbs 19:27
If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Read in contextExodus 12:18–20
In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
Read in contextLeviticus 2:11
No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
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