The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees^(A)

⁵ When his disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to take any bread along. ⁶ Jesus told them, “Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

⁷ As they began to discuss this among themselves, they kept saying, “We didn’t bring along any bread.”

⁸ Knowing this, Jesus asked them, “You who have little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you don’t have any bread? ⁹ Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected, ¹⁰ or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many baskets you collected? ¹¹ How can you fail to understand that I wasn’t talking to you about bread? Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

¹² Then they understood that he did not say to beware of the yeast used in bread,^[a] but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.