The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ

by Brant Pitre

If you’ve ever sat down and read the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, or Luke from beginning to end, one of the most striking things you might have noticed is how Jesus often instructs the demons, his disciples, and others not to tell anyone who he is. For example, during his many exorcisms, Jesus “would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him” (Mark 1:34). In one case, when the demons cry out, “You are the Son of God,” Jesus “strictly ordered them not to make him known” (Mark 3:11-12). After he heals a man of leprosy, he “sternly charged him” to “say nothing to any one” about what had happened (Mark 1:43-44). Likewise, when he heals the man with a speech impediment, he does so “aside from the multitude, privately,” and then afterward “charged them to tell no one” (Mark 7:36). When the apostle Peter confesses Jesus to be the Christ at Caesarea Philippi, Jesus charges the disciples “to tell no one about him” (Mark 8:30). And after the voice of God identifies Jesus as his beloved Son during the Transfiguration, Jesus commands the disciples “to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man should have risen from the dead” (Mark 9:9). This secrecy about Jesus’s identity is present in all three Synoptic Gospels (see Matthew 8:4; 12:16; 16:20; Luke 4:41; 9:21). Why does Jesus do this? Why the secrecy?

Why does'nt Christ ask God not to do this, if he is truly human. Most children do this.😀