11Why do you not understand that it was not concerning the bread I said to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?
12Then they understood that he said not that they should beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Matthew 16 marks a decisive pivot in the Gospel. Jesus rebukes the Pharisees and Sadducees for demanding a sign, warns his disciples against their "leaven" (teaching), and then leads them to Caesarea Philippi for the watershed confession of Peter: "You are the Christ, the Son of
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