And charged them that they should not make him known:
The charge not to publicize Him came when the Pharisees held a council together about how they might destroy Him, leading Jesus to withdraw from there. They counseled to destroy Him in response to His restoring human sickness. After withdrawing, great multitudes followed Him and He healed them all.
He told those He healed not to make Him known, keeping His healing work quiet and seeking no attention or honor for Himself. Even with that charge, those who received His help sometimes made His works known. He gave the charge because He desired to continue His work of healing and relieving those under the cruel power of Satan, a bondage He alone knew He could break. His humility and unassuming manner in this stood in contrast to the showy religion of the Pharisees.
His restraint from public contention and self-promotion in this fulfilled what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet about God's servant. Isaiah's prophecy presents God's chosen Servant as His Beloved in whom His soul is well pleased, receiving His Spirit to show judgment to the Gentiles, not striving or crying out or being heard in the streets, not breaking the bruised reed and not quenching smoking flax until sending forth judgment unto victory, with the Gentiles trusting in His name.
The charge not to publicize Him came when the Pharisees held a council together about how they might destroy Him, leading Jesus to withdraw from there. They counseled to destroy Him in response to His restoring human sickness. After withdrawing, great multitudes followed Him and He healed them all.
He told those He healed not to make Him known, keeping His healing work quiet and seeking no attention or honor for Himself. Even with that charge, those who received His help sometimes made His works known. He gave the charge because He desired to continue His work of healing and relieving those under the cruel power of Satan, a bondage He alone knew He could break. His humility and unassuming manner in this stood in contrast to the showy religion of the Pharisees.
His restraint from public contention and self-promotion in this fulfilled what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet about God's servant. Isaiah's prophecy presents God's chosen Servant as His Beloved in whom His soul is well pleased, receiving His Spirit to show judgment to the Gentiles, not striving or crying out or being heard in the streets, not breaking the bruised reed and not quenching smoking flax until sending forth judgment unto victory, with the Gentiles trusting in His name.