马太福音 16:6

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

耶穌對他們說：“你們要小心，提防法利賽人和撒都該人的酵。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 稣 对 他 们 说 ： 你 们 要 谨 慎 ， 防 备 法 利 赛 人 和 撒 都 该 人 的 酵 。

Contextual Overview

⁵ Jesus' followers went across the lake, but they had forgotten to bring bread. ⁶ Jesus said to them, "Be careful! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees." ⁷ His followers discussed the meaning of this, saying, "He said this because we forgot to bring bread." ⁸ Knowing what they were talking about, Jesus asked them, "Why are you talking about not having bread? Your faith is small. ⁹ Do you still not understand? Remember the five loaves of bread that fed the five thousand? And remember that you filled many baskets with the leftovers? ¹⁰ Or the seven loaves of bread that fed the four thousand and the many baskets you filled then also? ¹¹ I was not talking to you about bread. Why don't you understand that? I am telling you to beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees." ¹² Then the followers understood that Jesus was not telling them to beware of the yeast used in bread but to beware of the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Take: Luke 12:15

the leaven: Matthew 16:12, Exodus 12:15-19, Leviticus 2:11, Mark 8:15, Luke 12:1, 1 Corinthians 5:6-8, Galatians 5:9, 2 Timothy 2:16, 2 Timothy 2:17

the Pharisees: Matthew 16:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 13:7 - General Proverbs 19:27 - General Matthew 3:7 - the Pharisees Matthew 6:1 - heed Matthew 7:15 - Beware Matthew 22:23 - the Sadducees Mark 12:13 - Herodians Luke 20:27 - the Sadducees Luke 20:46 - Beware John 4:33 - General 1 Corinthians 5:8 - neither Colossians 2:8 - Beware 2 Peter 3:17 - beware

Cross-References

Genesis 16:8
The angel said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, where have you come from? Where are you going?" Hagar answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."

Genesis 16:9
The angel of the Lord said to her, "Go home to your mistress and obey her."

Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left, carrying with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Northwest Mesopotamia to Nahor's city.

Exodus 2:15
When the king heard what Moses had done, he tried to kill him. But Moses ran away from the king and went to live in the land of Midian. There he sat down near a well.

Job 2:6
The Lord said to Satan, "All right, then. Job is in your power, but you may not take his life."

Proverbs 14:29
Patient people have great understanding, but people with quick tempers show their foolishness.

Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer will calm a person's anger, but an unkind answer will cause more anger.

Proverbs 27:8
A person who leaves his home is like a bird that leaves its nest.

Proverbs 29:19
Words alone cannot correct a servant, because even if they understand, they won't respond.

Ecclesiastes 10:4
Don't leave your job just because your boss is angry with you. Remaining calm solves great problems.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Jesus said unto them,.... Either taking occasion from the disciples observing that they had forgot to take bread with them, or on account of what passed between him and the Pharisees and Sadducees, he gave the following advice to his disciples;

take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. Mark, instead "of the leaven of the Sadducees", says, "the leaven of Herod"; either because Christ might caution against all three; or because the Sadducees were generally Herodians, taking Herod to be the Messiah; or were on his party, or for his government, which the Pharisees disliked; and the Herodians were generally Sadducees. By "the leaven" of these is meant their doctrine, as appears from Matthew 16:12. The doctrines the Pharisees taught were the commandments and inventions of men, the traditions of the elders, free will, and justification by the works of the law: the doctrine of the Sadducees was, that there was no resurrection of the dead, nor angels, nor spirits: now because they sought secretly and artfully to infuse their notions into the minds of men; and which, when imbibed, spread their infection, and made men sour, morose, rigid, and ill natured, and swelled and puffed them up with pride and vanity, Christ compares them to leaven; and advises his disciples to look about them, to watch, and be on their guard, lest they should be infected with them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The account in these verses is also recorded in Mark 8:13-21.

Matthew 16:5

And when his disciples were come to the other side - That is, to the other side of the Sea of Galilee.

Mark says that he entered into a ship again, and departed to the other side. The conversation with the Pharisees and Sadducees had been on the western side of the Sea of Galilee. See the notes at Matthew 15:39. They crossed from that side again to the east.

Had forgotten to take bread - That is, had forgotten to lay in a sufficient supply. They had, it seems, not more than one loaf, Mark 8:14.

Matthew 16:6-11

Take heed ... - That is, be cautious, be on your guard.

The leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees - Leaven is used in making bread.

It passes secretly, silently, but certainly through the mass of dough. See the notes at Matthew 13:33. “None can see its progress.” So it was with the doctrines of the Pharisees. They were insinuating, artful, plausible. They concealed the real tendency of their doctrines; they instilled them secretly into the mind, until they pervaded all the faculties like leaven.

They reasoned ... - The disciples did not understand him as referring to the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees, because the word “leaven” was not often used among the Jews to denote doctrines, no other instance of this use of the word occurring in the Scriptures. Besides, the Jews had many particular rules about the leaven (yeast) which might be used in making bread. Many held that it was not lawful to eat bread made by the Gentiles; and the disciples, perhaps, supposed that he was cautioning them not to procure a supply from the Pharisees and Sadducees.

O ye of little faith! - Jesus, in reply, said that they should not be so anxious about the supply of their temporal wants. They should not have supposed, after the miracles that he had performed in feeding so many, that he would caution them to be anxious about procuring bread for their necessities. It was improper, then, for them to reason about a thing like that, but they should have supposed that he referred to something more important. The miracles had been full proof that he could supply all their wants without such anxiety.

Matthew 16:12

Then understood they ... - After this explanation they immediately saw that he referred to the doctrines of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Erroneous doctrines are like leaven in the following respects:

1. They are at first slight and unimportant in appearance, just as leaven is small in quantity as compared with the mass that is to be leavened.
2. They are insinuated into the soul unawares and silently, and are difficult of detection.
3. They act gradually.
4. They act most certainly.
5. They will pervade all the soul, and bring all the faculties under their control.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 16:6. Beware of the leaven — What the leaven of Pharisees and Sadducees was has been already explained, see Matthew 16:1. Bad doctrines act in the soul as leaven does in meal; they assimulate the whole Spirit to their own nature. A man's particular creed has a greater influence on his tempers and conduct than most are aware of. Pride, hypocrisy, and worldly-mindedness, which constituted the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees, ruin the major part of the world.