'Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees

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Mt 16:1: The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

Mt 16:2: He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

Mt 16:3: And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

Mt 16:4: A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

Mt 16:5: And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.

Mt 16:6: Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Mt 16:7: And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.

Mt 16:8: Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?

Mt 16:9: Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

Mt 16:10: Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

Mt 16:11: 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?

Mt 16:12: 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.