Matthew 16:11

11 How do you not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Matthew 16:11 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 16:11

How is it that ye do not understand
That you should be so senseless and void of thought, after such instances, as to imagine, that I concerned myself about what bread you brought with you; one would think you could not but know,

that I spake it not to you concerning bread,
taken in a literal sense; but must be thought to speak figuratively and mystically, and to have an higher sense and meaning, when I said to you,

that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the
Sadducees;
how could you think that I had any regard to the leaven taken in a literal sense, the Pharisees and Sadducees approve or disapprove of?

Matthew 16:11 In-Context

9 Do you not yet understand or do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

10 Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?

11 How do you not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

12 Then they understood that he did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

13 Now [when] Jesus came to the region of Caesarea {Philippi}, he began asking his disciples, saying, "Who do people say [that] the Son of Man is?"