Luke 12:1 Or speak to his disciples, saying: “First of all, be; Luke 12:25 Or single cubit to your height

Beware of Hypocrisy (). 12 In () the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the [] leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. 3 Therefore whatever you have spoken …

12 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.

Footnotes. Luke 12:5 Greek Gehenna; Luke 12:6 Greek two assaria; an assarion was a Roman copper coin worth about 1/16 of a denarius (which was a day's wage for a laborer); Luke 12:25 Or a single cubit to his stature; a cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters; Luke 12:27 Some manuscripts Consider the lilies; they neither spin nor weave; Luke 12:31 Some manuscripts …

Luke 12:1 Or speak to his disciples, saying: “First of all, be; Luke 12:25 Or single cubit to your height

Luke 12:1 A substance such as yeast that consists mostly of fungi. This analogy relates the impurity of a leavening agent to the impurity of the man-made tradition and hypocrisy of the Pharisees that was preventing the nation of Israel from accepting the Messiah.

12:2–9 Luke presents a collection of sayings of Jesus exhorting his followers to acknowledge him and his mission fearlessly and assuring them of God’s protection even in times of persecution. They are paralleled in Mt 10:26–33 .

12 Meanwhile, when thousands of people had gathered, so many that they were trampling one another, Yeshua began speaking first to His disciples, “Be on guard yourselves against the hametz of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 There is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.

Luke 12:10 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon. Luke 12:12 James Moulton and George Milligan, The Vocabulary. Luke 12:15 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon. Luke 12:15 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon. Luke 12:18 Some ancient manuscripts read “grain;” some read “produce” or “fruits. ...

Luke 12:15 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon. Luke 12:18 Some ancient manuscripts read “grain;” some read “produce” or “fruits.” Luke 12:20 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies : “The indefiniteness is impressive.”