⁷ When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees^(A) coming to the place of his baptism,^[a] he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?^(B)

¹⁵ So He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began to serve Him.

Beware of Religious Hypocrisy

12 In these circumstances,^[a] a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling^(A) on one another. He began to say to His disciples first:^(B) “Be on your guard^(C) against the yeast^[b](D) of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.^(E)

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast^(A) permeates the whole batch of dough?^{(B) 7} Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch. You are indeed unleavened, for Christ our Passover^(C) has been sacrificed.^{[a] 8} Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeast or with the yeast of malice and evil^(D) but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

⁹ A little yeast leavens the whole lump of dough.