I adjure thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

I conjure thee in the presence of God, who giveth life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who witnessed that noble confession before Pontius Pilate;

Put them in mind of these things, adjuring them before the Lord not to quarrel about words of no use, but tending to the perversion of the audience.

Take

Then Jesus said to them, Beware and abstain from the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

MEANTIME myriads of people collecting, so that they trod on one another, he began to speak to his disciples, Take heed principally of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

The leaven of the

Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?

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And they sent unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might entrap him in discourse.

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel together how they might lay a snare to entrap him in his discourse.

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A little leaven leaveneth the whole mass.