Matthew 16:1-16
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1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
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2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
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3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
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4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
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5 And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.
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6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
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7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.
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8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
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9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
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10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
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11 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?
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12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
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13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
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14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
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15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
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16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.