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¶ In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

In {G1722} the mean time {G3739}, when there were gathered together {G1996} an innumerable multitude {G3461} of people {G3793}, insomuch that {G5620} they trode {G2662} one upon another {G240}, he began {G756} to say {G3004} unto {G4314} his {G846} disciples {G3101} first of all {G4412}, Beware {G4337} ye {G1438} of {G575} the leaven {G2219} of the Pharisees {G5330}, which {G3748} is {G2076} hypocrisy {G5272}.

Meanwhile, as a crowd in the tens of thousands gathered so closely as to trample each other down, Yeshua began to say to his talmidim first, “Guard yourselves from the hametz of the P’rushim, by which I mean their hypocrisy.

In 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.

In the mean time, when the many thousands of the multitude were gathered together, insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

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Cross-References

  • 1 Peter 2:1 (8 votes)

    ¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

  • 1 Corinthians 5:7 (7 votes)

    ¶ Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

  • 1 Corinthians 5:8 (7 votes)

    Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.

  • James 3:17 (5 votes)

    But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

  • Luke 12:56 (3 votes)

    [Ye] hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

  • Matthew 16:6 (3 votes)

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

  • Matthew 16:12 (3 votes)

    Then understood they how that he bade [them] not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.