Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 16:7

7 And they reasoned amongst themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.

Mark saith, Chap. 8. v. 14, 15, 16. Now the Disciples had forgotten to take Bread, neither had they in the Ship with them more than one Loaf. And he charged them, saying, Take heed and beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. And they reasoning amongst themselves, said, It is because we have no Bread. The Disciples went into the Ship, without taking a due care for Provision for the[illegible: 1 letter] Bodies, which they were sensible of, when they came on shore on the other side. Christ happened in the mean time, to give them a caution against the Doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadduces, and Herodians, which he properly expresseth (tho Metaphorically) under the Notion of Leaven, this they understood not, but fancied that he had spoken this to them with reference to their want of Bread, as if he had only given them warning, that for the making of Bread to supply their necessity, they should not go to the Pharisees, or Sadduces, or Herodians, for leaven; or that they should not go to buy any Bread of the Pharisees, or of the Sadduces. So dull are we to understand Spiritual things, and so soon had they forgot the Doctrine which our Saviour had so lately taught them, Ch. 15.17, 18. That those things which are Forraign to a Man, and come not out of his Heart, do not defile a Man, but those things only which proceed out of his Heart.