- Crowds come to Jesus, and he heals many of the people. Then he
tells the disciples that he wants to feed them (Matthew 15:32).
In the previous chapter, the disciples told Jesus to send a
similar crowd away, but instead Jesus took five rolls and two
fish and fed the crowd of over 5000. Here we have a smaller
crowd and more rolls, but the disciples only manage to say,
"Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed
such a crowd?" (Matthew 15:33). Jesus feeds the crowd in roughly
the same way. - A little later, Jesus warns them to be on their
guard "against the yeast of the Pharisees and Saducees." The
disciples say to each other, "It is because we didn't bring any
bread." (Matthew 16:6-7). Jesus explains a little more to them,
and they finally figure out that he means the "yeast" is the
teaching of the Pharisees and Saducees. But they don't do that.
Then he says something about the "yeast of the Pharisees and
Saducees" and they think he's talking about bread. These guys
are really something. Now