The Yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod

To Read Click Mark 8:14-21

• What is the Yeast of the Pharisees
• It so happened that when Jesus made this statement
  • His disciples had foolishly forgotten to being sufficient bread for all of them
  • They realised it too late.
  • And when Jesus spoke of the Yeast of the Pharisees
  • They by guilt, felt Jesus was chastising them for not being attentive to get sufficient bread.
• In the Old Testament,
  • Yeast was associated as the action of corruption that can rapidly be the cause of sin.
  • Jesus is associating this with the
    • Pharisaic Lifestyle
      • They claimed knowledge of God and his actions
      • Yet lived a life detached from God and his reality
    • Herod’s Lifestyle
      • Was a self-centred lifestyle
      • At the expense of others
• He is warning them not to fall prey to such attitudes
  • Desire God fully
  • With a singular mindset
  • Just like the Great Shema asked them to do
    • Hear, O Israel:
    • The Lord is our God, the Lord
    • You shall love the Lord your God
    • with all your heart,
    • and with all your soul,
    • and with all your might.
    • Deut 6:4