17 ^tIt shall not be baked with leaven. ^uI have given it as their portion of my food offerings. ^vIt is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

12 ^vThen they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of ^wthe teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

15 And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; ^abeware of ^bthe leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of ^cHerod.”¹

Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees

1 In the meantime, ^twhen so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, ^u“Beware of ^vthe leaven of the Pharisees, ^wwhich is hypocrisy.

8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, ^hnot with the old leaven, ⁱthe leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 ^jA little leaven leavens the whole lump.