Matthew 16:11

Matthew 16:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
• New International Version (NIV)How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
• New Living Translation (NLT)Why can’t you understand that I’m not talking about bread? So again I say, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.’”

Context of Matthew 16:11

9Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? 10Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up? How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 12Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees. 13When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

Matthew 16:11 word by word

πῶς οὐ νοεῖτε ὅτι οὐ περὶ ἄρτων εἶπον ὑμῖν; προσέχετε δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς ζύμης τῶν Φαρισαίων καὶ Σαδδουκαίων.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• How is it thatπῶςpōs · how?!G4459
• ye doνοέωnoieō · to understandG3539
• notοὐou · noG3756
• thatὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
• I spakeλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
• to youσύsu · youG4771
• concerningπερίperi · aboutG4012
• breadἄρτοςartos · breadG740
• that ye should bewareπροσέχωprosechō · to watch outG4337
• ofἀπόapo · away fromG575
• the leavenὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• the leavenζύμηzumē · leavenG2219
• of the PhariseesΦαρισαῖοςPharisaios · PhariseeG5330
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• of the SadduceesΣαδδουκαῖοςSaddoukaios · SadduceeG4523

Cross-references for Matthew 16:11

• Mark 4:40But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?”
• Mark 8:21So He said to them, “How is it you do not understand?”
• Luke 12:56Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?
• John 8:43Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.

Commentaries on Matthew 16:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11How is it that ye do not understand - We are not deficient in spiritual knowledge, because we have not had sufficient opportunities of acquainting ourselves with God; but because we did not improve the advantages we had. How deep and ruinous must our ignorance be, if God did not give line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little! They now perceived that he warned them against the superstition of the Pharisees, which produced…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5-12Verses 5-12 The account in these verses is also recorded in Mark 8:13-21. Matthew 16:5 And when his disciples were come to the other side - That is, to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. Mark says that he entered into a ship again, and departed to the other side. The conversation with the Pharisees and Sadducees had been on the western side of the Sea of Galilee. See the notes at Matthew 15:39. They crossed from that side again to the east. Had…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-12Verses 5-12 Christ speaks of spiritual things under a similitude, and the disciples misunderstand him of carnal things. He took it ill that they should think him as thoughtful about bread as they were; that they should be so little acquainted with his way of preaching. Then understood they what he meant. Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-12Leaven (or yeast) often symbolizes sin and evil (see Exodus 12:8, 15; Leviticus 6:16–17; Galatians 5:9). Here, it represents how deceptive teaching spreads.Read the comment

Topics related to Matthew 16:11

• Apostles
• Chiding
• Jesus, the Christ
• Leaven (Yeast)
• Minister, Christian
• Pharisees
• Sadducees

In the dictionaries

• Adulterous
• Bind
• Blood
• Gain
• Gate
• Hell
• Leaven
• Loose
• Profited
• Reason

Commentaries on Matthew 16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings