Matthew 16:6
Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Matthew 16:6 in other translations
| BSB | “Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” |
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| WEB | Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” |
| ASV | And Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. |
| YLT | and Jesus said to them, ‘Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;' |
| DARBY | And Jesus said to them, See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. |
| BBE | And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. |
| Webster | Then Jesus said to them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. |
What does Matthew 16:6 mean?
Barnes' Notes
The leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. Leaven is used in making bread. Its use is to pass through the flour, and cause it to ferment or to swell, and become light. It passes secretly, silently, but certainly. None can see its progress. So it was with the doctrines of the Pharisees. They were insinuating, artful, plausible. They concealed the real tendency of their doctrines, they instilled them secretly into the mind, and they pervaded all the faculties, like leaven.
They reasoned, etc. The disciples did not understand him as referring to their doctrine, because the word leaven was not often used among the Jews to denote doctrines--no other instance of the use of the word occurring in the Scriptures. Besides, the Jews had many particular rules about the leaven which might be used in making bread. Many held that it was not lawful to eat bread made by the Gentiles; and the disciples, perhaps, supposed that he was cautioning them not to procure a supply from the Pharisees and Sadducees.
O ye of little faith. Jesus, in reply, said that they should not be so anxious about the supply of their wants. They should not have supposed, after the miracles that he had wrought in feeding so many, that HE would caution them to be anxious about procuring bread for their necessities. It was improper, then, for them to reason about a thing like that, but they should have supposed he referred to something more important. The miracles had been full proof that he could supply all their wants without such anxiety.
(e) "take them" Lk 12:1 (f) "???" 1Cor 5:6-8, Gal 5:9, 2Ti 2:16,17
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 16:5-12
Christ speaks of spiritual things under a similitude, and the disciples misunderstand him of carnal things. He took it ill that they should think him as thoughtful about bread as they were; that they should be so little acquainted with his way of preaching. Then understood they what he meant. Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.
Matthew 16:6 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Matthew 16:6
- Luke 12:1
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- Matthew 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.
- Galatians 5:9
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
- Leviticus 2:11
No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the Lord, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the Lord made by fire.
- 1 Corinthians 5:6-8
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
- Mark 8:15
And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
- 2 Timothy 2:16-17
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus;
- Exodus 12:15-19
Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. …
- Luke 12:15
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
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Context
- Matthew 16:5
And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.
- Matthew 16:6
Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
- Matthew 16:7
And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.
Matthew 16:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y Jesús les dijo: Mirad, y guardaos de la levadura de los Fariseos y de los Saduceos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Jésus leur dit: Voyez, et soyez en garde contre le levain des pharisiens et des sadducéens. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jesus aber sprach zu ihnen: Sehet zu und hütet euch vor dem Sauerteig der Pharisäer und Sadducäer. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Qui dixit illis: Intuemini, et cavete a fermento pharisæorum et sadducæorum. |