Amplified Bible

Matthew 16:3-14 Amplified Bible (AMP)

3. And in the morning, It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and has a gloomy and threatening look. You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.

4. A wicked and morally unfaithful generation craves a sign, but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. Then He left them and went away. [Jonah 3:4, 5.]

5. When the disciples reached the other side of the sea, they found that they had forgotten to bring any bread.

6. Jesus said to them, Be careful and on your guard against the leaven (ferment) of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

7. And they reasoned among themselves about it, saying, It is because we did not bring any bread.

8. But Jesus, aware of this, asked, Why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread? O you [men, how little trust you have in Me, how] little faith!

9. Do you not yet discern (perceive and understand)? Do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many [small hand] baskets you gathered?

10. Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many [large provision] baskets you took up?

11. How is it that you fail to understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But beware of the leaven (ferment) of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

12. Then they discerned that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

13. Now when Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, Who do people say that the Son of Man is?

14. And they answered, Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.