Mark 8:15 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 8:15

“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

KJV

And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

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Commentary

2 voices

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on Mark (1107)

For when the Lord said that they should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, that is, the teaching of the Pharisees, they thought that the Lord was reminding them about the leaven of bread. And so He rightly reproaches them as not understanding the …

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

Let us notice the solemn warning which our Lord gives to His disciples at the beginning of this passage. He says, "Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod." We are not left to conjecture the meaning of this warning. This is made clear by the parallel passage in Matthew's Gospel. We there read that Jesus did not mean the leaven of "bread," but the leaven of "doctrine." The self-righteousness and formalism of the Pharisees — the worldliness and skepticism of the courtiers of Herod, were the object of our Lord's caution.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
διεστέλλετο	diestelleto	He was instructing	G1291 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	to them	G846 →
λέγων·	legōn	saying;	G3004 →
ὁρᾶτε,	horate	do watch out,	G3708 →
βλέπετε	blepete	do take heed	G991 →
ἀπὸ	apo	of	G575 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
ζύμης	zumēs	leaven	G2219 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
Φαρισαίων	Pharisaiōn	Pharisees	G5330 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
ζύμης	zumēs	leaven	G2219 →
Ἡρῴδου.	Hērōdou	of Herod.	G2264 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 16:6
“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
leads to
- Luke 12:1
  In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is…
- Matthew 16:12
  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.
- Galatians 5:9
  A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.
- Leviticus 2:11
  No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- 1 Corinthians 5:6–8
  Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
Through
Mark 12:13
Later, they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to catch Jesus in His words.
leads to
- Luke 11:54
  waiting to catch Him in something He might say.
- Luke 20:20–26
  So they watched Him closely and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They were hoping to catch Him in His words in order to hand Him over to the rule and authority of…
- Mark 3:6
  At this, the Pharisees went out and began plotting with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.