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Matthew 16:5-12
Beware the Leaven
Confession and the Way Ahead · Matthew 16
Story guide: The disciples think first about missing bread, but Jesus directs them toward the deeper danger of corrupt teaching.
Open this scene in the reader →5And when the disciples came to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.
6But Jesus said to them, “Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
7And they were discussing among themselves, saying, “We did not bring bread.”
8But Jesus, knowing this, said, “Why are you discussing among yourselves, you of little faith, that you did not bring bread?”
9Do you still not understand, nor do you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
10Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many large baskets you picked up?
11How is it that you do not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
12Then they understood that he had not said to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
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