^15 (A)Then He charged them, saying, “Take heed, beware of the ^[a]leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

^6 (A)Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that ^(B)a little leaven leavens the whole lump? ⁷ Therefore ^[a]purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed ^(C)Christ, our ^(D)Passover, was sacrificed ^[b]for us. ⁸ Therefore ^(E)let us keep the feast, ^(F)not with old leaven, nor ^(G)with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁶ Then Jesus said to them, ^(A)“Take heed and beware of the ^[a]leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”

The Pharisees: Is It Lawful to Pay Taxes to Caesar?^(A)

^13 (B)Then they sent to Him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, to catch Him in His words.

¹¹ How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the ^[a]leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ¹² Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the ^[b]doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Beware of Hypocrisy^(A)

12 In ^(B)the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, ^(C)“Beware of the ^[a]leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ^2 (D)For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.

^18 (A)In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. ¹⁹ For ^(B)seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land. ²⁰ You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ”

¹³ I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus ^(A)who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

¹¹ ‘No grain offering which you bring to the Lord shall be made with ^(A)leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any offering to the Lord made by fire.