Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Matthew 16:6 - 16:7

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Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Matthew 16:6 - 16:7


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The warning and its understanding:

v. 6. Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

v. 7. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.

It was on the trip across the lake that Jesus spoke to them, Mar_8:14. They were worried on account of their neglect; the single loaf of bread in the boat was on their mind. The mention of leaven, therefore, was connected in their minds with bread, and it was bread which they lacked. They argued therefore that Jesus was reproaching them for not having a sufficient number of loaves with them in the oat. It was with them as with the Christians of all times: hard for them to get away from the care of the body! They neither marked that Jesus purposely used the word "leaven," nor did they notice the emphasis upon the "Pharisees and Sadducees. " Christ's object had been to warn them, in the form of a parabolic saying, against the doctrine of both sects, against the outward work-righteousness of the Pharisees and against the conventional, worldly bearing of the Sadducees.