Mark 3:12

12 He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

Mark 3:12 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 3:12

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.

Mark 3:12 In-Context

10 For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.

11 The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!"

12 He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

13 He went up into the mountain, and called to himself whom he wanted, and they went to him.

14 He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,