After Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea during the reign of King Herod, wise men arrived in Jerusalem from the east

and asked, "Where is the one who was born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."

After listening to the king, they set out, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it came and stopped over the place where the child was.

John had clothing made of camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist. His diet consisted of grasshoppers and wild honey.

I tell all of you, many will come from east and west and will feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom from heaven.

He told them another parable: "The kingdom from heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened."

Jesus told them, "Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

How can you fail to understand that I wasn't talking to you about bread? Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Then they understood that he did not say to beware of the yeast used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

because just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Now John was dressed in camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist. He ate grasshoppers and wild honey.

Jesus had been warning them, "Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!"

Meanwhile, the people had gathered by the thousands and were trampling on one another. Jesus began to speak first to his disciples. "Watch out for the yeast that is, the hypocrisy of the Pharisees!

Then Jesus told the crowds, "When you see a cloud coming in from the west, you immediately say, "There's going to be a storm,' and that's what happens.

It's like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened."

People will come from east and west, and from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God.

So they asked him, "How, then, did you gain your eyesight?"

therefore he got up from the table, removed his outer robe, and took a towel and fastened it around his waist.

Then he poured some water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel that was tied around his waist.

Your boasting is not good. You know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough, don't you?

Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, since you are to be free from yeast. For the Messiah, our Passover, has been sacrificed.

So let's keep celebrating the festival, neither with old yeast nor with yeast that is evil and wicked, but with yeast-free bread that is both sincere and true.

A little yeast spreads through the whole batch of dough.

Stand firm, therefore, having fastened the belt of truth around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

I saw another angel coming from the east having the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been permitted to harm the land and sea,

The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great Euphrates River. Its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.