Mateo 12:16

16 pero les ordenó que no dijeran quién era él.

Mateo 12:16 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 12:16

And charged them that they should not make him known.
] This charge was given, either to the multitude that followed him, and were healed by him, that when they returned to the respective places from whence they came, they would not make it known to his enemies where he was, and what he had done to them; being neither desirous of popular applause and glory, nor willing to provoke them more, nor to fall into their hands as yet; or else, as Mark seems to intimate, to the unclean spirits, that they would not declare who he was, the Son of God, they confessed him to be: and very likely it was given to both, and that they should neither tell where he was, nor who he was; and this charge was a very severe one; for the word signifies a charge with threatenings, should they not observe his orders.

Mateo 12:16 In-Context

14 Pero los fariseos salieron y tramaban cómo matar a Jesús.

15 Consciente de esto, Jesús se retiró de aquel lugar. Muchos lo siguieron, y él sanó a todos los enfermos,

16 pero les ordenó que no dijeran quién era él.

17 Esto fue para que se cumpliera lo dicho por el profeta Isaías:

18 «Este es mi siervo, a quien he escogido,mi amado, en quien estoy muy complacido;sobre él pondré mi Espíritu,y proclamará justicia a las naciones.