Now it came to pass, while the crowd pressed upon Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret,

But the report about Him spread all the more; and great crowds came together to hear, and to be healed by Him from their sicknesses.

And having come down with them, He stood on a level place, with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases,

And hearing this, they were glorifying the Lord, saying to him, "You see, brother, how many myriads of Jews there are having believed, and they are all zealous for the law;

And the king appointed the officer on whose hand the king leaned [to have charge] over the gate; and the people trampled on him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God [had] said, who spoke when the messenger came down to him.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

Then Jesus said to them, "Look out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees."

But Jesus, knowing [about it], said to them, "O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you did not take bread?

Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many hampers you took [up]?

Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Then He charged them, saying, "Look out, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

But Jesus, knowing about it, said to them, "Why are you reasoning because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Is your heart still hardened?

When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up?" They said to Him, "Twelve."

So He said to them, "How [is it] you do not understand?"

Purge out the old leaven, in order that you may be a new batch of dough, since you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

So then let us observe the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Hypocrites! You know [how] to discern the face of the earth and of the sky, but how is it you do not discern this time?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like unmarked graves, and the men walking over them do not know it."

But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction:

For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? Will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved?

And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath [against themselves]; they will not cry, because He has bound them.

The sinners in Zion have departed; trembling shall seize the ungodly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? Who will tell you of the eternal place?

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

Therefore having put away all malice, all guile, hypocrisy, envy, and all slanders,