Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

With His Enemies Lying In Wait To Destroy Him, Myriads Gather To Hear Jesus

⁵³ And He having gone out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly^[a] hostile^[b], and to question^[c] Him concerning more things ⁵⁴ while lying-in-wait-for Him to catch something from His mouth— 12 ¹ in which circumstances, the myriads of the crowd having been gathered-together so that they were trampling one another:

Watch Out For The Leaven of The Pharisees, But Do Not Fear Them

He began to speak to His disciples first, “Take heed to yourselves because of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ² But nothing has been covered-up^[d] which will not be revealed, and is secret which will not be known. ³ Because whatever you said in the darkness will be heard in the light. And what you spoke to the ear in the inner-rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.