A little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise!<n id="1" />

And Jesus<n id="1" /> ordered them,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees<n id="3" /> and the yeast of Herod!&#8221;

So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.<n id="1" />p>

&#8220;Watch out,&#8221; Jesus said to them, &#8220;beware of the yeast of the Pharisees<n id="1" /> and Sadducees.&#8221;<n id="2" />

It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with<n id="1" /> three measures<n id="2" /> of flour until all the dough had risen.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Your boasting is not good. Don&#8217;t you know that a little yeast<n id="1" /> affects<n id="2" /> the whole batch of dough?

How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!&#8221;

Then they understood that he had not told them to be on guard against the yeast in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.p>

Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough &#8211; you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

<t /><p class="bodytext">He told them another parable: &#8220;The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with<n id="1" /> three measures<n id="2" /> of flour until all the dough had risen.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Meanwhile,<n id="1" /> when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus<n id="2" /> began to speak first to his disciples, &#8220;Be on your guard against<n id="3" /> the yeast of the Pharisees,<n id="4" /> which is hypocrisy.<n id="5" />