NOTES for Mat 16:1-12
1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. |
2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. |
3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? |
4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed. |
5 And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. |
6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. |
7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. |
8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? |
9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? |
10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? |
11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? |
12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. |
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The bitter irony is that the Pharisees and Sadducees knew how to distinguish the subtlest shades of the sky, but they did not notice Christ's coming when cardinal changes in the relationship between God and people had matured. Today we can see any signs in heaven and on earth, yet we still cannot understand that the time has come to live differently. The time has come to live in unity and love with God and our neighbors; the time of humanity in relationships between people has come. How sad that we do not see this, and how frightening a reminder can be that the world lacks love.
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