Mark Chapter 8 verse 15 Holy Bible
And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.
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And he said to them, Take care to be on the watch against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.
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And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and [of] the leaven of Herod.
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And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
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He charged them, saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."
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and he was charging them, saying, `Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod. St. Matthew (Matthew 15:6) says, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;" thus St. Mark identifies the leaven of the Sadducees with that of Herod. "Leaven" here means "doctrine." They were not to beware of this, so far as the Pharisees rightly taught and explained the Law of Moses; but only so far as they corrupted that Law by their own vain traditions, contrary to the Law of God, St. Luke (Luke 12:11) calls this leaven "hypocrisy;" because the Pharisees only regarded outward ceremonies, and neglected the inward sanctification of the Spirit. St. Jerome says, "This is the leaven of which the Apostle speaks where he says, 'A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.' Marcion and Valentinus and all heretics have had this kind of leaven, which is on every account to be avoided. Leaven has this property, that, however small it may be in quantity, it spreads its influence rapidly through the mass. And so if only a little spark of heretical doctrine be admitted into the soul, speedily a great flame arises, and envelopes the whole man."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) He charged them.--The verb is in the imperfect tense, and implies that the command was more than once repeated. Hence they, too, "were reasoning," more than once, what was the meaning of the precept on which so much stress was laid.The leaven of Herod.--The words imply the presence among the questioners of Mark 8:11 of others besides the Pharisees. On the connection between the "leaven of Herod" and that of "the Sadducees" in Matthew 16:6, see Note on that verse.
