15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be ecut off from Israel.
11 How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 12 Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
15 And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; ibeware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”1
Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees
1 wIn the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, x“Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.