Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
 

16:12 doctrine. As indicated before, leaven is a substance which instigates a decay process and thus symbolizes false doctrine. See notes on Matthew 13:32-33.

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