In the mean time; while he was delivering his discourse to the Pharisees.

The leaven of the Pharisees; hypocrisy, the great sin of the Pharisees, which, like leaven, mingled itself with and corrupted all their religious services. Men should be especially careful to be at heart in all things honest, upright, and sincere, and to act from good motives; they should be more desirous of being right in the sight of God, than of appearing to be right in the sight of man.

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