Mark 12:13

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

“ ‘No meal offering which you shall offer to Yahweh shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”

You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.” ’

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’

Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’ ” ’

When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”