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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Gill's Exposition
Then understood they,.... Without any further explication of his sense and meaning,
how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread: which sense they first took him in; imagining, because…
The account in these verses is also recorded in Mar 8:13-21. Mat 16:5 And when his disciples were come to the other side - That is, to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. Mark says that he entered…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Then understood they The Greek word and its derivative is used specially of spiritual intelligence.