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Mark 8:15

Warning Hypocrisy and Deception

"Be careful. Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod."

— Mark 8:15

Jesus warning about the influence of religious and political leaders

Book

Mark

Chapter & Verses

Ch. 8, v.15

Matthew 16:23

"Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns."

Matthew 21:43

"Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit."

Matthew 23:13

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces."

Same theme (Hypocrisy and Deception) in other Gospels

Matthew 15:8

"These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me."

Matthew 22:18

"You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?"

Matthew 23:3

"So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach."