Now after the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem in Judea, in the days of King Herod, astrologers from the east arrived at Jerusalem,

John wore clothing made of hair cloth, and he had a leather belt around his waist, and he lived on dried locusts and wild honey.

And I tell you, many will come from the east and from the west and take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven,

Another figure which he used with them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and buried in a bushel of flour until it had all risen."

And Jesus said to them, "Look out, and be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Why do you not see that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Then they understood that he was warning them not against yeast but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

For just as the lightning starts in the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

John's clothing was made of hair cloth, and the belt around his waist was leather, and he lived on dried locusts and wild honey.

And he warned them, saying, "Look out! Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!"

And they fled out of the tomb, for they were all trembling and bewildered, and they said nothing about it to anyone, for they were afraid to do so. AN ANCIENT APPENDIX But they reported briefly to Peter and his companions all they had been told. And afterward Jesus himself sent out by them from the east to the west the sacred and incorruptible message of eternal salvation. \b ANOTHER ANCIENT APPENDIX

Meanwhile as the people gathered in thousands, until they actually trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.

And he said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rise in the west, you say at once, 'It is going to rain,' and it does.

It is like yeast that a woman took and hid in a bushel of flour, till it all rose."

People will come from the east and west and the north and south, and take their places in the Kingdom of God.

rose from the table, took off his outer clothing, and fastened a towel about his waist.

Then he poured water into the basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, wiping them with the towel that was about his waist.

and as the harbor was not fit to winter in, the majority favored putting to sea again, in the hope of being able to reach and winter in Phoenix, a harbor in Crete facing west-south-west and west-north-west.

Certainly this is nothing for you to boast of. Do you not know that a little yeast will affect all the dough?

You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.

So let us keep the festival, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

A little yeast will make all the dough rise.

Stand your ground, then, with the belt of truth around your waist, and put on uprightness as your coat of mail,

Then I saw another angel ascend from the east with the seal of the living God, and he cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who had it in their power to harm the earth and the sea,

The sixth emptied his bowl upon the great river Euphrates, and its waters dried up to make the way ready 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.