Matthew 16

¹The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

²But he answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’

³In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!

⁴An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them and departed.

⁵The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread.

⁶Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

⁷They reasoned among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”

⁸Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, because you have brought no bread?

⁹Don’t you yet perceive or remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up,

¹⁰or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

¹¹How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

¹²Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”