Matthew 16:8-12 NIV
Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked, “You of little faith, why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread? [9] Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? [10] Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? [11] 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.” [12] Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
If the teaching of the Pharisees and Saducees could act like yeast, infecting and stealing life, then Jesus’ life and teaching is like bread, the stuff of life, that nourishes and sustains us.
Bread of Heaven
Bread of Heaven
Feed me now and ever more
Feed me now and ever more!
(Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah, William Williams, 1745)
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