Mark 8:15

Jesus warns against the 'yeast' of the Pharisees and of Herod—their corrupting influence. He cautions against pervasive false teaching and unbelief.

Cross-references · 17

• 1 Cor 5:6–8Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
• Matt 16:6“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• Matt 16:11–12How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• Mark 12:13Later, they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to catch Jesus in His words.
• Luke 12:1–2In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• Exod 12:18–20In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
• Lev 2:11No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
• Prov 19:27If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
• Matt 14:1At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus
• 1 Tim 6:13I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession in His testimony before Pontius Pilate:
• 1 Chr 28:9–10As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
• 1 Tim 5:21I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to maintain these principles without bias, and to do nothing out of partiality.
• Matt 22:15–18Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.
• Luke 12:15And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
• 2 Tim 2:14Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which succeeds only in leading the listeners to ruin.
• 1 Chr 28:20David also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will neither fail you nor forsake you before all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.
• Num 27:19–23Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation, and commission him in their sight.

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