The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test Jesus they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
Matthew 16:11 - New Revised Standard Version How could you fail to perceive that I was not speaking about bread? Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How is it that you fail to understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But beware of the leaven (ferment) of the Pharisees and Sadducees. American Standard Version (1901) How is it that ye do not perceive that I spake not to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Common English Bible Don’t you know that I wasn’t talking about bread? But be on your guard for the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Catholic Public Domain Version Why do you not understand that it was not because of bread that I said to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why do you not understand that it was not concerning the bread I said to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees? |
The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test Jesus they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
Then they understood that he had not told them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Jesus said to them, “Watch out, and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out—beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”
Meanwhile, when the crowd gathered by the thousands, so that they trampled on one another, he began to speak first to his disciples, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy.
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word.