Mateus 16:12

12 Então entenderam que não dissera que se guardassem, do fermento dos pães, mas da doutrina dos fariseus e dos saduceus.

Mateus 16:12 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 16:12

Then understood they
Without any further explication of his sense and meaning,

how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread:
which sense they first took him in; imagining, because the Pharisees were very particular and precise what sort of leaven they made use of ^F26, that Christ forbad them buying bread that was made with leaven according to their directions: and since their rules in everything prevailed much in all places, they were concerned what bread they must, or could buy; but now they perceived that he did not speak of this, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. It was very common with the Jews ^F1 to call the corruption and vitiosity of nature by the name of (hoyebv rwav) , "leaven in the lump": hence our Lord calls their doctrine so, because it proceeded from thence, and was agreeable thereunto; and uses the phrase on purpose to expose it, and bring it into neglect and contempt.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Misn. Pesach, c. 2. sect. 2, 3. T. Hieros. Sabbat, fol. 3. 3.
F1 T. Hieros. Beracot, fol. 7. 4. T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 17. 1. Bereshit Rabba, fol. 29. 4. Caphtor, fol. 38. 2. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 73. 2.

Mateus 16:12 In-Context

10 Nem dos sete pães para os quatro mil, e de quantas alcofas levantastes?

11 Como não compreendeis que não nos falei a respeito de pães? Mas guardai-vos do fermento dos fariseus e dos saduceus.

12 Então entenderam que não dissera que se guardassem, do fermento dos pães, mas da doutrina dos fariseus e dos saduceus.

13 Tendo Jesus chegado �s regiões de Cesaréia de Felipe, interrogou os seus discípulos, dizendo: Quem dizem os homens ser o Filho do homem?

14 Responderam eles: Uns dizem que é João, o Batista; outros, Elias; outros, Jeremias, ou algum dos profetas.