How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
We have here Christ's discourse with his disciples concerning bread, in which, as in many other discourses, he speaks to them of spiritual things under a similitude, and they misunderstand him of carnal things. The occasion of it was, their forgetting to victual their ship, and to take along with them provisions for their family on the other side of the water; usually they carried...
Commenting on Matthew 16:5-12
How is it that ye do not understand,.... That you should be so senseless and void of thought, after such instances, as to imagine, that I concerned myself about what bread you brought with you; one would think you could not but know, that I spake it not to you concerning bread, taken in a literal sense; but must be thought to speak figuratively and...
How is it that ye do not understand that I spake [it] not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? (f) A demand or question joined with wonder. (g) "Spake" for commanded.