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Literal Standard Version

Mark 3:12

and many times He was charging them that they might not make Him apparent.

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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he sharply rebuked them, to the ende they should not vtter him.
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

1And He entered again into the synagogue, and there was there a man having the hand withered, 2and they were watching Him, whether on the Sabbaths He will heal him, that they might accuse Him. 3And He says to the man having the hand withered, "Rise up in the midst." 4And He says to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? To save life, or to kill?" But they were silent. 5And having looked around on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their heart, He says to the man, "Stretch forth your hand"; and he stretched forth, and his hand was restored whole as the other; 6and the Pharisees having gone forth, immediately, with the Herodians, were taking counsel against Him how they might destroy Him. 7And Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, and from Judea, 8and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and they around Tyre and Sidon—a great multitude—having heard how He was doing great things, came to Him. 9And He said to His disciples that a little boat may wait on Him, because of the multitude, that they may not press on Him, 10for He healed many, so that they threw themselves on Him, in order 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
And YHWH God says, "[It is] not good for the man to be alone; I make him a helper as his counterpart."
Genesis 2:20
And the man calls names to all the livestock, and to bird of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man a helper has not been found as his counterpart.
Genesis 2:22
And YHWH God builds up the rib which He has taken out of the man into a woman, and brings her to the man;
Genesis 3:13
And YHWH God says to the woman, "What [is] this you have done?" And the woman says, "The serpent has caused me to forget, and I eat."
Genesis 3:15
and I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He bruises your head, and you bruise His heel."
Genesis 3:20
And the man calls his wife's name Eve, for she has been mother of all living.
Genesis 3:21
And YHWH God makes coats of skin [for] the man and his wife, and clothes them.
Genesis 3:24
indeed, He casts out the man, and causes the cherubim to dwell at the east of the Garden of Eden with the sword of flame whirling around to guard the way of the Tree of Life.
Job 31:33
If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, || To hide my iniquity in my bosom,
Proverbs 19:3
The folly of man perverts his way, || And his heart is angry against YHWH.

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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