After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived unexpectedly in Jerusalem,

saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”

After hearing the king, they went on their way. And there it was—the star they had seen in the east! It led them until it came and stopped above the place where the child was.

John himself had a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

I tell you that many will come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into 50 pounds of flour until it spread through all of it.”

Then Jesus told them, “Watch out and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Why is it you don’t understand that when I told you, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,’ it wasn’t about bread?”

Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the yeast in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

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

John wore a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

Then He commanded them: “Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

In these circumstances, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to His disciples first: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

He also said to the crowds: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, right away you say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and so it does.

It’s like yeast that a woman took and mixed into 50 pounds of flour until it spread through the entire mixture.”

They will come from east and west, from north and south, and recline at the table in the kingdom of God.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast permeates the whole batch of dough?

Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch. You are indeed unleavened, for Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.

Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeast or with the yeast of malice and evil but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

A little yeast leavens the whole lump of dough.

Stand, therefore,

with truth like a belt around your waist,
righteousness like armor on your chest,

Then I saw another angel, who had the seal of the living God rise up from the east. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were empowered to harm the earth and the sea:

The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and 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.