3901 - Tell No Man

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 5, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 43.

3901 — Tell No Man

In Jesus' healing, what was His reason for nearly always telling them to tell no man?

He did this in order that there might be no excuse on the part of the people, or of His critics at that time, of saying that He was seeking popularity. That is what the Pharisees did. They prayed on the street corner. They gave their alms with great ostentation. They wore garments that would say to others around them, See how holy I am. Jesus did nothing of this sort. The very fact that they themselves posed before the people as righteous would necessarily lead Him to take an opposite course. He was not posing for popularity, and therefore He charged them that they should tell no man. Of course they did tell. Their countenances and their voices and their praises to God told, but at the same time there would be borne with it His own testimony that this was not to draw attention to Himself. He was not seeking to be popular.