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New King James Version

Mark 3:12

But He sternly warned them that they should not make Him known.

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 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 Matthew 12:9-14; Luke 6:6-11">[xr] And He entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand. 2 So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. 3 And He said to the man who had the withered hand, "Step forward." 4 Then He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they kept silent. 5 And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other. [fn] 6 Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him. 7 Matthew 12:15-21">[xr] But Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea. And a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, and from Judea 8 and Jerusalem and Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and those from Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they heard how many things He was doing, came to Him. 9 So He told His disciples that a small boat should be kept ready for Him because of the multitude, lest they should crush Him. 10 For He healed many, so that as many as had afflictions pressed about Him to touch Him.

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 the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."
Genesis 2:20
So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.
Genesis 2:22
Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
Genesis 3:13
And the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."
Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis 3:21
Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
Genesis 3:24
So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Job 31:33
If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
Proverbs 19:3
The foolishness of a man twists his way, And his heart frets 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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