Matthew 16:12
10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
11 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?
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.
13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the leaven used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
- ASV
- Then understood they that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
- DARBY
- Then they comprehended that he did not speak of being beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
- BLB
- Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of the loaves, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
- ÅB
- Da forsto de at han ikke hadde advart dem mot surdeigen i brød, men mot fariseernes og sadduseernes lære.
- OTB
- Da forsto de at Han ikke sa til dem å vokte seg for surdeigen brukt i brød, men for fariseernes og saddukeernes lære.
- B1930
- Da forstod de at han ikke hadde talt om at de skulde ta sig i vare for surdeigen i brød, men for fariseernes og sadduseernes lære.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 5:20
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Read in contextActs 23:8
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
Read in contextMatthew 23:13–28
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Read in contextMatthew 15:4–9
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
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