Matthew 16:11 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 16:11

How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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?

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Commentary

4 voices

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 12.6 (253)

Some were distracted by the use of bread and yeast. In order to clarify and enlighten them in a still symbolic way that he was not speaking about literal bread but about yeast as representing teaching, Jesus adds, "How is it that you do not understand that I was not talking to you about bread? Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

How is it that you do not understand? Note, Christ's disciples may well be ashamed of the slowness and dulness of their apprehensions in divine things; especially when they have long enjoyed the means of grace;

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

How is it that ye do not understand - We are not deficient in spiritual knowledge, because we have not had sufficient opportunities of acquainting ourselves with God; but because we did not improve the advantages we had. How deep and ruinous must our ignorance be, if God did not give line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little!

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

In these verses we find our Lord assailed by the untiring enmity of the Pharisees and Sadducees. As a general rule these two sects were at enmity between themselves; in persecuting Christ, however, they made common cause. Truly it was an unholy alliance! Yet how often we see the same thing in the present day. Men of the most opposite opinions and habits will agree in disliking the Gospel, and will work together to oppose its progress. “There is no new thing under the sun” ( Ecclesiastes 1:9 ).

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
πῶς	pōs	How	G4459 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
νοεῖτε	noeite	understand you	G3539 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
περὶ	peri	concerning	G4012 →
ἄρτων	artōn	loaves	G740 →
εἶπον	eipon	I spoke	G2036 →
ὑμῖν;	humin	to you?	G4771 →
προσέχετε	prosechete	do beware	G4337 →
δὲ	de	also	G1161 →
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 →
Σαδδουκαίων.¶	Saddoukaiōn	Sadducees!	G4523 →

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
Mark 4:40
“Why are you so afraid?” He asked. “Do you still have no faith?”
leads to
- Luke 8:25
  “Where is your faith?” He asked. Frightened and amazed, they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him!”
- Matthew 14:31
  Immediately Jesus reached out His hand and took hold of Peter. “You of little faith,” He said, “why did you doubt?”
- Matthew 8:26
  “You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.
- Isaiah 43:2
  When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched;…
Through
Luke 12:56
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and sky. Why don’t you know how to interpret the present time?
leads to
- Matthew 16:3
  and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.
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…
Through
John 8:43
Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
leads to
- John 12:39–40
  For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says:
- Romans 8:7–8
  because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.