Matthew 16:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 16:6 : 6 And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
  • Mark 4:40 : 40 And he said to them, Why are you full of fear? have you still no faith?
  • Mark 8:21 : 21 And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?
  • Luke 12:56 : 56 O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.

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  • Matt 16:12
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    12Then they saw that it was not the leaven of bread which he had in mind, but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

  • Matt 16:5-10
    6 verses
    90%

    5And when the disciples came to the other side they had not taken thought to get bread.

    6And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

    7And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, We took no bread.

    8And Jesus, seeing it, said, O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you have no bread?

    9Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

    10Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

  • Mark 8:14-21
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    85%

    14And they had taken no thought to get bread; and they had only one cake of bread with them in the boat.

    15And he said to them, Take care to be on the watch against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

    16And they said to one another, We have no bread.

    17And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you have no bread? do you still not see, and is it still not clear to you? are your hearts so hard?

    18Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?

    19When I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? They said to him, Twelve.

    20And when the seven among the four thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? And they said to him, Seven.

    21And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?

  • Luke 12:1
    79%

    1At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.

  • Matt 15:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?

    17Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?

  • Matt 15:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:

    11Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.

    12Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?

  • Luke 9:45
    72%

    45But this saying was not clear to them and its sense was kept secret from them so that they were not able to see it: and they had fear of questioning him about it.

  • Matt 15:1-2
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    1Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,

    2Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.

  • Matt 15:33
    72%

    33And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

  • Mark 7:5
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    5And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?

  • Luke 6:4
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    4How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

  • Matt 22:15-16
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    15Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.

    16And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.

  • Mark 2:24
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    24And the Pharisees said to him, Why are they doing what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?

  • John 6:26
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    26Jesus, answering them, said, Truly I say to you, You come after me, not because you saw signs, but because you were given the bread and had enough.

  • Mark 8:4-5
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    4And his disciples said in answer, How will it be possible to get enough bread for these men here in a waste place?

    5And he put the question, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes.

  • Mark 6:52
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    52For it was not clear to them about the bread; but their hearts were hard.

  • Matt 12:2
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    2But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, See, your disciples do that which it is not right to do on the Sabbath.

  • Gal 5:9
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    9A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.

  • Mark 9:32
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    32But the saying was not clear to them, and they were in fear of questioning him about it.

  • Luke 11:39
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    39And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.

  • Luke 6:2
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    2But some of the Pharisees said, Why do you do what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?

  • Mark 2:26
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    26How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

  • Mark 4:13
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    13And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others?

  • Mark 6:36
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    36Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves.

  • Luke 16:14
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    14And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.

  • Matt 21:45
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    45And when his stories came to the ears of the chief priests and the Pharisees, they saw that he was talking of them.

  • Matt 12:4
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    4How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?

  • Mark 7:2
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    2And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.

  • John 6:5
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    5Lifting up his eyes, Jesus saw a great number of people coming to where he was, and he said to Philip, Where may we get bread for all these people?

  • John 6:32
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    32Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

  • Mark 14:1
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    1It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:

  • John 4:32
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    32But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.