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.
Ver. 12. Then understood they how, &c.] This chiding then was well bestowed. So was that, Luke 24:29, upon the two disciples going to Emmaus, and that upon the Virgin Mary, John 2:5; she laid her hand upon her mouth and replied not. And that upon the Corinthians for conniving at the incestuous person; and that upon the Laodiceans, Revelation 3:14, for Eusebius telleth us that in his time it continued to be a flourishing church. It is said of Gerson, that he took not content in anything so much as in a plain and faithful reproof from his friend. It is a commendation to suffer the words of exhortation,Hebrews 13:22 .