5 Now when His disciples had come to the other side,
they had forgotten to take bread. 6
Then Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware
of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” 7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is
because we have taken no bread.” 8 But Jesus,
being aware of it, said to them, “O you of
little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no
bread? 9 Do you not yet understand, or remember the
five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? 10 Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand
and how many large baskets you took up? 11 How is it you do not understand that I did
not speak to you concerning bread?—but to 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 doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Now the disciples rejoin with the Lord Jesus Christ, however having arrived there they remember that they had forgotten to take bread with them.
Vs. 6 Then Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”
Now when the Lord Jesus meets them (knowing that they had not brought any provisions with them) He first say’s to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” This Jesus says to them having just had an encounter with the Pharisees and Sadducees whose “leaven” had kept them blinded to Him.
Vs. 7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is because we have taken no bread.”
The disciples though are still focused on their lack of bread; though Jesus said nothing of bread, but “leaven” which makes bread rise.
Vs. 8-11 8 But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread? 9 Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? 10 Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up? 11 How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Now the Lord Jesus being aware of the disciples still focusing on their lack of bread now reminds them how He first fed the five thousand (which left them five baskets full of fragments that were leftover) and then later how He fed the four thousand (with this time seven baskets full of fragments left over). Therefore, their lack of bread should not be a concern to them for as the Lord Jesus has already demonstrated He can provide all the bread that they will need. Therefore, the Lord Jesus pointedly asks them, “How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
The disciple’s now understand that the Lord Jesus was not concerned with the leaven of bread, but rather with the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees which as previously noted not only blinds one to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, but also it only enslaves one to serving the man-made and misleading commands and traditions which they held so dearly too but do nothing to bring one into a personal and everlasting and fully satisfying relationship with God, but only leave ones person and soul decimated in the end, and that is the danger of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees (who are likewise dangerous in that they deny key Biblical doctrines) for they always supplant the Word of God with their own ideals. Therefore the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees (and all like them) will form something in you, but it won’t be faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and obedience to His Word, but rather theirs.
Commentary
Vs.
5 “Now when His disciples had come to the other side,
they had forgotten to take bread.”Now the disciples rejoin with the Lord Jesus Christ, however having arrived there they remember that they had forgotten to take bread with them.
Vs. 6 Then Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”
Now when the Lord Jesus meets them (knowing that they had not brought any provisions with them) He first say’s to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” This Jesus says to them having just had an encounter with the Pharisees and Sadducees whose “leaven” had kept them blinded to Him.
Vs. 7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is because we have taken no bread.”
The disciples though are still focused on their lack of bread; though Jesus said nothing of bread, but “leaven” which makes bread rise.
Vs. 8-11 8 But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread? 9 Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? 10 Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up? 11 How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Now the Lord Jesus being aware of the disciples still focusing on their lack of bread now reminds them how He first fed the five thousand (which left them five baskets full of fragments that were leftover) and then later how He fed the four thousand (with this time seven baskets full of fragments left over). Therefore, their lack of bread should not be a concern to them for as the Lord Jesus has already demonstrated He can provide all the bread that they will need. Therefore, the Lord Jesus pointedly asks them, “How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Vs. 12 Then they understood that He did not tell them
to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
The disciple’s now understand that the Lord Jesus was not concerned with the leaven of bread, but rather with the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees which as previously noted not only blinds one to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, but also it only enslaves one to serving the man-made and misleading commands and traditions which they held so dearly too but do nothing to bring one into a personal and everlasting and fully satisfying relationship with God, but only leave ones person and soul decimated in the end, and that is the danger of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees (who are likewise dangerous in that they deny key Biblical doctrines) for they always supplant the Word of God with their own ideals. Therefore the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees (and all like them) will form something in you, but it won’t be faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and obedience to His Word, but rather theirs.
Scripture Quotations
The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982.
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