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Matius 16:11
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Bagaimana mungkin kamu tidak mengerti bahwa bukan roti yang Kumaksudkan. Aku berkata kepadamu: Waspadalah terhadap ragi orang Farisi dan Saduki."
Bagaimanakah yang kamu tiada mengerti, bahwa bukannya dari hal roti Aku berkata kepadamu? Tetapi jagalah dirimu daripada ragi orang Parisi dan orang Saduki itu."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Mark 4:40, Mark 8:21, Luke 12:56, John 8:43
Reciprocal: Leviticus 2:11 - no leaven Ezekiel 17:12 - Know Matthew 3:7 - the Pharisees Matthew 7:15 - Beware Matthew 13:51 - Have Matthew 15:16 - General Matthew 16:1 - Sadducees Matthew 22:16 - the Herodians Mark 7:18 - General Mark 8:15 - Take 2 Peter 3:17 - beware
Cross-References
Unto who God sayd: Sara thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, & thou shalt call his name Isahac: and I wyll establishe my couenaunt with hym for an euerlastyng couenaunt [and] with his seede after hym.
And the Lorde saide: I haue surely seene the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and haue heard their crie from the face of their taske maisters: for I knowe their sorowes,
Nowe therfore beholde the complaint of the chyldren of Israel is come vnto me: and I haue also seene the oppressio wherwith ye Egyptians oppressed them.
For in processe of time it came to passe, that she conceaued, and bare a sonne, & called his name Samuel, [saying:] Because I haue asked him of the Lorde.
Who prouideth meate for the rauen, when his young ones crye vnto God, and flee about for lacke of meate?
For he hath not dispised nor abhorred the affliction of the poore: he hath not hyd his face from hym, but he hearde hym when he cryed vnto hym.
Therefore the Lorde hym selfe shall geue you a token: Beholde, a virgin shall conceaue and beare a sonne, and shall call his name Emmanuel.
But the Angel sayde vnto him: Feare not Zacharie, for thy prayer is hearde: and thy wyfe Elizabeth shall beare thee a sonne, & thou shalt cal his name Iohn.
For beholde, thou shalt conceaue in thy wombe, and beare a sonne, & shalt call his name Iesus.
And he asked for wrytyng tables, and wrote, saying, his name is Iohn. And they marueyled all.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
How is it that ye do not understand,.... That you should be so senseless and void of thought, after such instances, as to imagine, that I concerned myself about what bread you brought with you; one would think you could not but know,
that I spake it not to you concerning bread, taken in a literal sense; but must be thought to speak figuratively and mystically, and to have an higher sense and meaning, when I said to you,
that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the Sadducees; how could you think that I had any regard to the leaven taken in a literal sense, the Pharisees and Sadducees approve or disapprove of?
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:
- 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.
- They are insinuated into the soul unawares and silently, and are difficult of detection.
- They act gradually.
- They act most certainly.
- They will pervade all the soul, and bring all the faculties under their control.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 16:11. How is it that ye do not understand — We are not deficient in spiritual knowledge, because we have not had sufficient opportunities of acquainting ourselves with God; but because we did not improve the advantages we had. How deep and ruinous must our ignorance be, if God did not give line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little! They now perceived that he warned them against the superstition of the Pharisees, which produced hypocrisy, pride, envy, &c., and the false doctrine of the Sadducees, which denied the existence of a spiritual world, the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body, and the providence of God.