How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
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? (f) A demand or question joined with wonder. (g) "Spake" for commanded.
You should know by now that I speak not of bread in the literal sense, but figuratively and mystically. How could you imagine I cared about what loaf you happened to bring, when I plainly meant you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees, their doctrine, not their bakery?
AI summary
Christ speaks of spiritual things in earthly pictures, and His disciples hear only bread and butter. They forgot provisions because their minds were filled with better things, which is no small mercy. But mark this: the leaven of the Pharisees, their corrupt principles spreading like yeast through dough, is far more dangerous than an empty pantry, and disciples stand most in peril from hypocrites who cloak their poison in piety.
AI summary
Commenting on Matthew 16:5-12