Matthew 16
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The Yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees
1The Pharisees and Sadducees approached, # Mt 12:38-39; Mk 8:11-21; Lk 12:54-56 and as a test, asked Him to show them a sign from heaven. # Lk 11:16; 1Co 1:22
2He answered them: “When evening comes you say, ‘It will be good weather because the sky is red.’ 3And in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy because the sky is red and threatening.’ You # Other mss read Hypocrites! You know how to read the appearance of the sky, but you can’t read the signs of the times. # Other mss omit When (v. 2) through end of v. 3 4An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of # Other mss add the prophet Jonah.” # Mt 4:13; 21:17; Lk 11:29 Then He left them and went away.
5The disciples reached the other shore, # Lit disciples went to the other side and they had forgotten to take bread.
6Then Jesus told them, “Watch out and beware of the yeast # Or leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” # Mt 3:7; 8:15; Lk 12:1; 1Co 5:6-8; Gl 5:9
7And they discussed among themselves, “We didn’t bring any bread.”
8Aware of this, Jesus said, “You of little faith! # Mt 6:30; 8:26; 14:31; Lk 12:28 Why are you discussing among yourselves that you do not have bread? 9Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected? 10Or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many large baskets you collected? # Mt 14:17-21; 15:34-38 11Why 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? ” # Mt 3:7; 16:6; Mk 8:15; Lk 12:1 12Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the yeast in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. # Mt 5:20; 17:13; 23:3
Peter’s Confession of the Messiah
13When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, # A town north of Galilee at the base of Mount Hermon # Mk 8:27-29; Lk 9:18-20 He asked His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is? ” # Other mss read that I, the Son of Man, am
14And they said, “Some say John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” # Mt 14:2; 17:10; Mk 6:15; Lk 9:8; Jn 1:21
15“But you,” He asked them, “who do you say that I am? ”
16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God! ” # Mt 1:16; Jn 11:27
17And Jesus responded, “Simon son of Jonah, # Or son of John # Jn 1:42; 21:15-17 you are blessed because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father in heaven. # 1Co 15:50; Gl 1:16; Eph 6:12; Heb 2:14 18And I also say to you that you are Peter, # Peter (Gk Petros) = a specific stone or rock and on this rock # Rock (Gk petra) = a rocky crag or bedrock I will build My church, # Mt 18:17; Ac 5:11; 7:38; 8:1,3; 9:31; 11:22,26 and the forces # Lit gates of Hades will not overpower it. 19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, # Is 22:22; Mt 18:18; Jn 20:23; Rv 1:18; 3:7 and whatever you bind on earth is already bound # Or earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth is already loosed # Or earth will be loosed in heaven.”
20And He gave the disciples orders to tell no one that He was # Other mss add Jesus the Messiah. # Mk 8:30; Lk 9:21
His Death and Resurrection Predicted
21From # Mk 8:31–9:1; Lk 9:22-27 then on Jesus began to point out to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and be raised the third day. # Mt 17:9; 20:18; 27:63; Lk 24:7; Jn 2:19 22Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, “Oh no, # Lit Mercy to You = May God have mercy on You Lord! This will never happen to You! ”
23But He turned and told Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, # Lit about the things of God but man’s.” # 2Sm 19:22; Rm 8:5,7; Php 2:5; 3:19; Col 3:2
Take Up Your Cross
24Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. # Mt 10:38; Lk 14:27 25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it. # Mt 10:39; Jn 12:25 26What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life? # Ps 49:7-8; Lk 12:20 27For the Son of Man is going to come with His angels in the glory of His Father, # Mt 26:64; Mk 8:38; Ac 1:11; 1Th 1:10; 4:16; Rv 1:7 and then He will reward each according to what he has done. 28I assure you: There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.” # Mt 4:23; 10:23; Ac 20:25
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Matthew 16
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1And the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming to him, asked him, tempting him, to shew them a sign out of heaven. 2But he answering said to them, When evening is come, ye say, Fine weather, for the sky is red; 3and in the morning, A storm to-day, for the sky is red and lowering; ye know how to discern the face of the sky, but ye cannot the signs of the times. 4A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it save the sign of Jonas. And he left them and went away.
5And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. 6And Jesus said to them, See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. 7And they reasoned among themselves, saying, Because we have taken no bread. 8And Jesus knowing it, said, Why reason ye among yourselves, O ye of little faith, because ye have taken no bread? 9Do ye not yet understand nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up? 10nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 11How do ye not understand that it was not concerning bread I said to you, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees? 12Then they comprehended that he did not speak of being beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
13But when Jesus was come into the parts of Caesarea-Philippi, he demanded of his disciples, saying, Who do men say that I the Son of man am? 14And they said, Some, John the baptist; and others, Elias; and others again, Jeremias or one of the prophets. 15He says to them, But ye, who do ye say that I am? 16And Simon Peter answering said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17And Jesus answering said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens. 18And I also, I say unto thee that thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and hades' gates shall not prevail against it. 19And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of the heavens; and whatsoever thou mayest bind upon the earth shall be bound in the heavens; and whatsoever thou mayest loose on the earth shall be loosed in the heavens. 20Then he enjoined on his disciples that they should say to no man that he was the Christ.
21From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples that he must go away to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised. 22And Peter taking him to him began to rebuke him, saying, God be favourable to thee, Lord; this shall in no wise be unto thee. 23But turning round, he said to Peter, Get away behind me, Satan; thou art an offence to me, for thy mind is not on the things that are of God, but on the things that are of men.
24Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it. 26For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 27For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to each according to his doings. 28Verily I say unto you, There are some of those standing here that shall not taste of death at all until they shall have seen the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.