“Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.”
Jesus said to them: watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. The warning against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees immediately follows the disciples' realization about the bread — creating the misunderstanding that Jesus was talking about literal bread. The leaven as a symbol of pervasive influence (the leaven-parable of Matthew 13:33 used the same image positively) here communicates the spreading danger of the Pharisees' and Sadducees' teaching.
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