12 Then understood they, that he spake about abstaining not from the leaven in the bread, but from the doctrine of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.
Matthew 16:12 Cross References - Haweis
Matthew 5:20
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness abounds more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 15:4-9
4 For God commanded, saying "Honour thy father and thy mother:" and, He that curseth father or mother, let him surely die.
5 But ye say, If any man declare to his father or mother, This is a [devoted] gift, which else might have been employed by me for thy advantage;
6 then he shall not with it honour his father and mother: so have ye vacated the command of God by your tradition.
7 Ye hypocrites, well hath Isaiah prophesied concerning you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh to me with their mouths, and honoureth me with the lips, but their heart is far distant from me.
9 But in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines the commandments of men.
Matthew 23:13-28
13 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the kingdom of heaven from men; for ye yourselves enter not in, and those who were coming in, ye suffer not to enter.
14 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: wherefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.
15 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained, ye make him doubly more the child of hell than yourselves.
16 Wo unto you ye blind guides! who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, it is binding.
17 Ye fools and blind! for which is the greater, the gold, or the temple which consecrates the gold?
18 And again, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, it is binding.
19 Ye fools and blind! which is the greater, the gift, or the altar which consecrates the gift?
20 Whosoever therefore sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it.
21 And whosoever sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him also who dwelleth in it.
22 So he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him who is seated upon it.
23 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithes of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier precepts of the law, judgment, and mercy, and fidelity: these thing ought ye to have done, and not to leave the others undone.
24 Ye blind guides! who strain out a gnat, but gulp down a camel.
25 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup, and of the dish, but within they are full of rapacity and intemperance.
26 Thou blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that their outside may become clean also.
27 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye resemble tombs whitewashed, which outwardly indeed appear specious, but within are full of dead men's bones, and all manner of impurity.
28 And just so, ye without indeed appear to men righteous, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Acts 23:8
8 For the Sadducees say indeed, that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.