⁶ Then Jesus told them, “Watch out and beware of the leaven^[a] of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”^(A)

¹¹ Why is it you don’t understand that when I told you, ‘Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees,’ it wasn’t about bread?”^{(A) 12} Then they understood that he had not told them to beware of the leaven in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.^(B)

¹⁵ Then^(A) he gave them strict orders: “Watch out! Beware of the leaven^[a](B) of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”^(C)

Beware of Religious Hypocrisy

12 Meanwhile, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling^(A) on one another. He began to say to his disciples first,^(B) “Be on your guard^(C) against the leaven^[a](D) of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.^(E)

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little leaven^[a](A) leavens the whole batch of dough?^{(B) 7} Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new unleavened batch, as indeed you are. For Christ our Passover lamb^(C) has been sacrificed.^{[b] 8} Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old leaven or with the leaven of malice and evil,^(D) but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹ A little leaven^[a] leavens the whole batch of dough.