Luke 12:1
Good News Translation
As thousands of people crowded together, so that they were stepping on each other, Jesus said first to his disciples, "Be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees--I mean their hypocrisy.

New Revised Standard Version
Meanwhile, when the crowd gathered by the thousands, so that they trampled on one another, he began to speak first to his disciples, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy.

Contemporary English Version
As thousands of people crowded around Jesus and were stepping on each other, he told his disciples: Be sure to guard against the dishonest teaching of the Pharisees! It is their way of fooling people.

New American Bible
Meanwhile, so many people were crowding together that they were trampling one another underfoot. He began to speak, first to his disciples, “Beware of the leaven—that is, the hypocrisy—of the Pharisees.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

an.

Luke 5:1,15 And it came to pass, that when the multitudes pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth, . . .

Luke 6:17 And coming down with them, he stood in a plain place: and the company of his disciples and a very great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the sea coast, both of Tyre and Sidon,

Acts 21:20 But they hearing it, glorified God and said to him: Thou seest, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews that have believed: and they are all zealous for the law.

*Gr:

trode.

2 Kings 7:17 And the king appointed that lord on whose hand he leaned, to stand at the gate: and the people trod upon him in the entrance of the gate; and he died, as the man of God had said, when the king came down to him.

first.

1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

Beware.

Matthew 16:6-12 Who said to them: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. . . .

Mark 8:15 And he charged them saying: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.

*etc:

1 Corinthians 5:7,8 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed. . . .

which.

Luke 12:56 You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time?

Luke 11:44 Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not: and men that walk over are not aware.

Job 20:5 That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

Job 36:13 Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.

Isaiah 33:14 The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon the hypocrites. Which of you can dwell with devouring fire? which of you shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,

Context
The Leaven of the Pharisees
1And when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed: nor hidden that shall not be known.…
Cross References
Matthew 16:6
Who said to them: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 16:11
Why do you not understand that it was not concerning bread I said to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

Mark 8:15
And he charged them saying: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.

Hebrews 12:22
But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,

Luke 11:54
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