Matthew 16:1-14 ▼

1 And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, questioned Him, to show to them a sign from Heaven,

2 and He answering said to them, “Evening having come, you say, Fair weather, for the sky is red,

3 and at morning, Foul weather today, for the sky is red—gloomy; hypocrites, you indeed know to discern the face of the sky, but the signs of the times you are not able!

4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet”; and having left them He went away.

5 And His disciples having come to the other side, forgot to take loaves,

6 and Jesus said to them, “Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees”;

7 and they were reasoning in themselves, saying, “Because we took no loaves.”

8 And Jesus having known, said to them, “Why reason you in yourselves, you of little faith, because you took no loaves?

9 Do you not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets you took up?

10 Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

11 How do you not understand that I did not speak to you of bread—to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?”

12 Then they understood that He did not say to take heed of the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

13 And Jesus, having come to the parts of Caesarea Philippi, was asking His disciples, saying, “Who do men say I am—the Son of Man?”

14 And they said, “Some, John the Immerser, and others, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”