Mark 8:15. The leaven of Herod. Matthew: ‘of the Sadducees.' Herod was not a professed Sadducee, but our Lord was warning against what all these had in common. On the alliance of the Pharisees and Herodians, see on chap. Mark 3:6. The one common characteristic of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Herodians was ‘hypocrisy' (see on Matthew 16:12), the last named party coquetting with the other two as politicians do, and of course acting hypocritically.

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