¹⁷ It must not be baked with yeast; I have given it as their share^(A) of the food offerings presented to me.^(B) Like the sin offering^[a] and the guilt offering, it is most holy.^(C)

¹² Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.^(A)

¹⁵ “Be careful,” Jesus warned them. “Watch out for the yeast^(A) of the Pharisees^(B) and that of Herod.”^(C)

Warnings and Encouragements^(A)

12 Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be^[a] on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.^(B)

⁸ Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread^(A) of sincerity and truth.

⁹ “A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.”^(A)