Matthew 16:1-12

The Demand for a Sign

16¹ And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven. ² But in answer he said to them, At nightfall you say, The weather will be good, for the sky is red. ³ And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times. ⁴ An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. And he went away from them.

The Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ And when the disciples came to the other side they had not taken thought to get bread. ⁶ And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. ⁷ And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, We took no bread. ⁸ And Jesus, seeing it, said, O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you have no bread? ⁹ Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up? ¹⁰ Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up? ¹¹ How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees? ¹² Then they saw that it was not the leaven of bread which he had in mind, but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.