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. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
• Matt 16:6Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• Matt 16:11–12How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• Mark 12:13They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.
• Luke 12:1–2Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• Exod 12:18–20In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
• Lev 2:11“‘No meal offering, which you shall offer to Yahweh, shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
• Prov 19:27If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
• Matt 14:1At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,
• 1 Tim 6:13I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
• 1 Chr 28:9–10You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• 1 Tim 5:21I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
• Matt 22:15–18Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
• Luke 12:15He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
• 2 Tim 2:14Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
• 1 Chr 28:20David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.
• Num 27:19–23Set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight.

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