Matthew Chapter 12 verse 16 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 12:16

and charged them that they should not make him known:
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BBE Matthew 12:16

Ordering them not to give people word of him:
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DARBY Matthew 12:16

and charged them strictly that they should not make him publicly known:
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KJV Matthew 12:16

And charged them that they should not make him known:
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WBT Matthew 12:16


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WEB Matthew 12:16

and charged them that they should not make him known:
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YLT Matthew 12:16

and did charge them that they might not make him manifest,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - And charged them that they should not make him known. Publicity as such was rather hindering to his work than otherwise. Only those who had no spiritual affinity with him (John 7:3-5), or at most but little (Matthew 9:31), desired him to have it.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) And charged them that they should not make him known.--In other cases that have come before us we have seen reason to connect this command with the spiritual discipline which was best for those who had been healed. Here the generalised character of the command leads us to look for another explanation. The hour of final conflict and suffering had not yet come, and Jesus would not hasten it. The clouds were gathering, but the night had not yet come, and He sought to work while it was yet day, and therefore (again giving an example of His own precept that His disciples should be "wise as serpents and harmless as doves," Matthew 10:16) sought to avoid premature occasions of offence.