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Geneva Bible

Mark 3:12

And he sharply rebuked them, to the ende they should not vtter him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Prudence;   Thompson Chain Reference - Silence;   Silence-Speech;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Disciples;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Messianic Secret;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Satan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Antichrist ;   Consciousness;   Demon, Demoniacal Possession, Demoniacs;   Ideas (Leading);   Mark, Gospel According to;   Profession (2);   Silence;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Strait;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Simon Cephas;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And he would strongly warn them not to make him known.
King James Version (1611)
And he straitly charged them, that they should not make him knowen.
King James Version
And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
English Standard Version
And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.
New American Standard Bible
And He strongly warned them not to reveal who He was.
New Century Version
But Jesus strongly warned them not to tell who he was.
Amplified Bible
Jesus sternly warned them [again and again] not to tell who He was.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And He earnestly warned them not to tell who He was.
Legacy Standard Bible
And He earnestly warned them not to tell who He was.
Berean Standard Bible
But He ordered them sternly not to make Him known.
Contemporary English Version
But Jesus warned the spirits not to tell who he was.
Complete Jewish Bible
But he warned them strictly not to make him known.
Darby Translation
And he rebuked them much, that they might not make him manifest.
Easy-to-Read Version
But Jesus gave the spirits a strong warning not to tell anyone who he was.
George Lamsa Translation
And he cautioned them a great deal, not to make him known.
Good News Translation
Jesus sternly ordered the evil spirits not to tell anyone who he was.
Lexham English Bible
And he warned them strictly that they should not make him known.
Literal Translation
And He warned them very much that they should not reveal Him.
American Standard Version
And he charged them much that they should not make him known.
Bible in Basic English
And he gave them special orders not to say who he was.
Hebrew Names Version
He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.
International Standard Version
But he sternly ordered them again and again not to tell people who he was.Matthew 12:16; Mark 1:25,34;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And he strongly prohibited them to make him known.
Murdock Translation
And he charged them much, not to make him known.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he straytely charged them, that they shoulde not make hym knowen.
English Revised Version
And he charged them much that they should not make him known.
World English Bible
He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he straitly charged them, not to make him known.
Weymouth's New Testament
But He many a time checked them, forbidding them to say who He was.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And greetli he manasside hem, that thei schulden not make hym knowun.
Update Bible Version
And he charged them much that they should not make him known.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he strictly charged them, that they should not make him known.
New English Translation
But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.
New King James Version
But He sternly warned them that they should not make Him known.
New Living Translation
But Jesus sternly commanded the spirits not to reveal who he was.
New Life Bible
He spoke strong words that the demons should tell no one Who He was.
New Revised Standard
But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and sternly was he rebuking them, lest they should make him manifest.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou art the Son of God. And he strictly charged them that they should not make him known.
Revised Standard Version
And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he straygtly charged them that they shuld not vtter him.
Young's Literal Translation
and many times he was charging them that they might not make him manifest.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he charged them strately, that they shulde not make him knowne.
Mace New Testament (1729)
but he strictly charged them, not to make him known.
Simplified Cowboy Version
But Jesus always kept the demons from telling anyone who he really was.

Contextual Overview

1 And he entred againe into ye Synagogue, & there was a man which had a withered had. 2 And they watched him, whether he would heale him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. 3 Then he saide vnto the man which had the withered hand, Arise: stand forth in the middes. 4 And he saide to them, Is it lawfull to doe a good deede on the Sabbath day, or to doe euil? to saue the life, or to kil? But they held their peace. 5 Then hee looked rounde about on them angerly, mourning also for the hardnesse of their hearts, and saide to the man, Stretch foorth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hande was restored, as whole as the other. 6 And the Pharises departed, & straightway gathered a councill with the Herodians against him, that they might destroy him. 7 But Iesus auoided with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude followed him from Galile, and from Iudea, 8 And from Ierusalem, & from Idumea, and beyonde Iordan: and they that dwelled about Tyrus & Sidon, when they had heard what great things he did, came vnto him in great number. 9 And he commanded his disciples, that a litle shippe should waite for him, because of the multitude, lest they shoulde throng him. 10 For hee had healed many, in so much that they preassed vpon him to touch him, as many as had plagues.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mark 1:25, Mark 1:34, Matthew 12:16, Acts 16:18

Reciprocal: Mark 1:43 - General Mark 5:43 - he charged Mark 7:36 - General Luke 4:35 - Jesus

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
Also the Lorde God saide, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I wil make him an helpe meete for him.
Genesis 2:20
The man therefore gaue names vnto all cattell, and to the foule of the heauen, and to euery beast of the fielde: but for Adam founde he not an helpe meete for him.
Genesis 2:22
And the ribbe which the Lorde God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man.
Genesis 3:13
And the Lorde God saide to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eate.
Genesis 3:15
I wil also put enimitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy seede & her seede. He shall breake thine head, and thou shalt bruise his heele.
Genesis 3:20
(And the man called his wiues name Heuah, because she was the mother of all liuing)
Genesis 3:21
Vnto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coates of skinnes, and clothed them.
Genesis 3:24
Thus he cast out man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sworde shaken, to keepe the way of the tree of life.
Job 31:33
If I haue hid my sinne, as Adam, concealing mine iniquitie in my bosome,
Proverbs 19:3
The foolishnesse of a man peruerteth his way, and his heart freateth against the Lord.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he straitly charged them,.... Or vehemently rebuked them, as the Syriac and Arabic versions render it; or threatened them much and vehemently, as the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic. The Persic version renders it, "threatened many"; both the devils that confessed him, and the many that were healed of their diseases: he gave them a strict and severe charge,

that they should not make him known; or "his work", as the Arabic, his miracles: he sought not vain glory and popular applause, nor did he need the testimony of men or devils; and especially did not choose the latter, lest his enemies should traduce him, as having familiarity with them, as they did.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unclean spirits - Persons who were possessed of evil spirits.

Thou art the Son of God - The Son of God, by way of eminence. In this place it is equivalent to the Messiah, who was, among the Jews, called the Son of God. Hence, they were charged not to make him known, because he was not desirous that it should be blazoned abroad that he claimed to be the Messiah. He had not yet done what he wished in order to establish his claims to the Messiahship. He was poor and unhonored, and the claim would be treated as that of an impostor. “For the present,” therefore, he did not wish that it should be proclaimed abroad that he was the Messiah. The circumstance here referred to demonstrates the existence of evil spirits. If these were merely diseased or deranged persons, then it is strange that they should be endowed with knowledge so much superior to those in health. If they were under the influence of an order of spirits superior to man - whose appropriate habitation was in another world - then it is not strange that they should know him, even in the midst of his poverty, to be the Messiah, the Son of God.


 
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