leaven of Pharisees and Herod
Most thoughts that I feel comfortable with come from the context. The Pharisees and Herod were guys who kept asking for signs from Jesus to prove who He was. The truth is they never came to faith because of signs and Jesus did some pretty amazing ones to prove who He is. Miracles do not create faith, build faith; it's wrong to assume they do. Many saw unexplainable things and yet did not come to faith. Jesus warned His own disciples not to be like the Pharisees and Herod, who were always asking for more proof, but would never come to belief. The leaven of needing more and more proof, miracles to come to faith is what the Pharisees and Herod were giving out, don't take in that leaven, lest you demand more and more to come to faith. You will end as they did, unbelievers with no amount of miracles being able to convince you to believe. That's what the context says to me.
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