^17 (A)It shall not be baked with leaven. ^(B)I have given it as their portion of my food offerings. ^(C)It is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

^12 (A)Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of ^(B)the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

¹⁵ And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; ^(A)beware of ^(B)the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of ^(C)Herod.”^[a]

Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees

12 In the meantime, ^(A)when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, ^(B)“Beware of ^(C)the leaven of the Pharisees, ^(D)which is hypocrisy.

⁸ Let us therefore celebrate the festival, ^(A)not with the old leaven, ^(B)the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

^9 (A)A little leaven leavens the whole lump.