Bible Study Yeast of the Pharisees. (Prove)

[LovethroughDove]

I was trying to look for a synonym to the word "prove" and I didn't realize that prove also means:

(of bread dough) become aerated by the action of yeast; rise

When Jesus warns about the "yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees" Matthew 16:6, does this mean how these people try to "prove" the existence of God?

I never understood what Jesus was trying to get at with the yeast of the Pharisees until today when I saw this.

Does this resonate with anyone else?!

 

[reba]

Yeast is leaven
i got stuff on the stove got to go..

 

[Not_Now.Soon]

I think in at least one of the gospels when Jesus says this it's after the religous leaders demand a sign from Jesus. Kind of like after all Jesus had done, they still wouldn't believe and demanded more signs and gifts to entertain them or bless them. Jesus rebuked them and left on a boat like He and His disciples arrived on and he warned his disciples of the yeast of the pharisees.

I alway took that to mean their hypocrisy, but in light of your word study there might be something to it.

 

[reba]

Luk_12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
1Co_5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

 

[LovethroughDove]

You guys are giving more revelation here. The Pharisees and Sadducees tried to prove their righteousness, but they were hypocrites.


1 Corinthians 5:6-8 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast - as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

Yeast is bad for some reason and unleavened bread is good. This is one of the only things I'm still confused as to why? Anymore help out there?

Because the Pharisees and Sadducees were trying to make bread, when the Bread of Life is already given?

Matthew 23:10 Nor are you to be called 'teacher', for you have one Teacher, the Christ.

John 6:32-36 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who give you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." "Sir, they said, "from now on give us this bread." Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.

So the fake teachers will give you information that will leave you hungry and the Christ will feed your soul.

 

[LovethroughDove]

Holy cow, something else just hit me.

Prove = yeast

"I am" = just is

He doesn't have to be proven............... he just is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Eugene]

Hi Sister LovethroughDove,

When Jesus told His disciples: "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees," they thought He spoke to them of natural things, but Jesus spoke of spiritual matters.
E.g., Luk 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

The following excerpt is from: Matthew - Biography of the King written by A.S. Copley which may not have anything pertinent to your question.
“Jesus has a much greater matter in mind, even the leaven of error. The leaven of ritualism (Pharisaic) and the leaven of rationalism (Sadducean), is what concerns Him. He knew its subtle and pervasive working. When it began to manifest itself there was no end to the influence it exerted: therefore His warning. And we who see the powerful result in the corruption displayed in the leavened mass of Christendom readily understand His admonition.”

 

[Nathan]

Matthew 16:12
Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

The religious leaders were for sure hypocritical. Their teaching was that of saying/believing one thing, yet doing another.

It was likened to leaven because once just a little bit of this gets in it starts to multiply. One thing always leads to another.

I do find it interesting that you saw that leaven 'proves' bread. There is deffinetly spiritual application there.