Luke 9:21
Jesus Predicts His Death
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Jesus strictly warned them not to tell this to anyone.
Read Luke 9:21 Using Other Translations
And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;
And he strictly charged and commanded them to tell this to no one,
Jesus warned his disciples not to tell anyone who he was.
What does Luke 9:21 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Luke 9:21
And he strictly charged them, and commanded
them
Though he highly approved of this their confession, and
pronounced Peter blessed upon it; and signified that it was a
discovery which flesh and blood could not make, but what was made
to him his Father: yet he gave them a strict charge, and laid his
commands on them,
to tell no man that thing;
that he was the Messiah, and the eternal Son of God, and the true
God, as well as the son of man, and really man: the reasons for
this: (See Gill on Matthew
16:20).
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