After the second miracle of the loaves and before the confession of Peter, Jesus gives his disciples in the boat seem a strange word, it is difficult to immediately grasp the significance: "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees "(Luke 16.6). What ever may be the leaven of the Pharisees to be in their community, who have not seen any bread with it ...
Jesus has used the image of yeast also indicate the dynamics of the kingdom of God that he came to announce and inaugurate "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures flour because the whole lump was leavened "(Matt. 13:33).
It is this underlying dynamics of the yeast of the kingdom is present and active in the lives of those who seek to follow Jesus, as is the risk of the other yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, that men's religious priests , scribes, who appeared as the most qualified members of God's people, its leaders and pastors ...
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