Mark 3:12

Weymouth New Testament

But He many a time checked them, forbidding them to say who He was.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And he would strongly warn them not to make him known.

King James Version (1611)
And he straitly charged them, that they should not make him knowen.

King James Version
And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.

English Standard Version
And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

New American Standard Bible
And He strongly warned them not to reveal who He was.

New Century Version
But Jesus strongly warned them not to tell who he was.

Amplified Bible
Jesus sternly warned them [again and again] not to tell who He was.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And He earnestly warned them not to tell who He was.

Legacy Standard Bible
And He earnestly warned them not to tell who He was.

Berean Standard Bible
But He ordered them sternly not to make Him known.

Contemporary English Version
But Jesus warned the spirits not to tell who he was.

Complete Jewish Bible
But he warned them strictly not to make him known.

Darby Translation
And he rebuked them much, that they might not make him manifest.

Easy-to-Read Version
But Jesus gave the spirits a strong warning not to tell anyone who he was.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he sharply rebuked them, to the ende they should not vtter him.

George Lamsa Translation
And he cautioned them a great deal, not to make him known.

Good News Translation
Jesus sternly ordered the evil spirits not to tell anyone who he was.

Lexham English Bible
And he warned them strictly that they should not make him known.

Literal Translation
And He warned them very much that they should not reveal Him.

American Standard Version
And he charged them much that they should not make him known.

Bible in Basic English
And he gave them special orders not to say who he was.

Hebrew Names Version
He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

International Standard Version
But he sternly ordered them again and again not to tell people who he was.Matthew 12:16; Mark 1:25,34;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And he strongly prohibited them to make him known.

Murdock Translation
And he charged them much, not to make him known.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he straytely charged them, that they shoulde not make hym knowen.

English Revised Version
And he charged them much that they should not make him known.

World English Bible
He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he straitly charged them, not to make him known.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And greetli he manasside hem, that thei schulden not make hym knowun.

Update Bible Version
And he charged them much that they should not make him known.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he strictly charged them, that they should not make him known.

New English Translation
But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.

New King James Version
But He sternly warned them that they should not make Him known.

New Living Translation
But Jesus sternly commanded the spirits not to reveal who he was.

New Life Bible
He spoke strong words that the demons should tell no one Who He was.

New Revised Standard
But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and sternly was he rebuking them, lest they should make him manifest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou art the Son of God. And he strictly charged them that they should not make him known.

Revised Standard Version
And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he straygtly charged them that they shuld not vtter him.

Young's Literal Translation
and many times he was charging them that they might not make him manifest.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he charged them strately, that they shulde not make him knowne.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but he strictly charged them, not to make him known.

Simplified Cowboy Version
But Jesus always kept the demons from telling anyone who he really was.

Contextual Overview

¹ At another time, when He went to the synagogue, there was a man there with one arm shrivelled up. ² They closely watched Him to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath--so as to have a charge to bring against Him. ³ "Come forward," said He to the man with the shrivelled arm. ⁴ Then He asked them, "Are we allowed to do good on the Sabbath, or to do evil? to save a life, or to destroy one?" They remained silent. ⁵ Grieved and indignant at the hardening of their hearts, He looked round on them with anger, and said to the man, "Stretch out your arm." He stretched it out, and the arm was completely restored. ⁶ But no sooner had the Pharisees left the synagogue than they held a consultation with the Herodians against Jesus, to devise some means of destroying Him. ⁷ Accordingly Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the Lake, and a vast crowd of people from Galilee followed Him; ⁸ and from Judaea and Jerusalem and Idumaea and from beyond the Jordan and from the district of Tyre and Sidon there came to Him a vast crowd, hearing of all that He was doing. ⁹ So He gave directions to His disciples to keep a small boat in constant attendance on Him because of the throng--to prevent their crushing Him. ¹⁰ For He had cured many of the people, so that all who had any ailments pressed upon Him, to touch Him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mark 1:25, Mark 1:34, Matthew 12:16, Acts 16:18

Reciprocal: Mark 1:43 - General Mark 5:43 - he charged Mark 7:36 - General Luke 4:35 - Jesus

Cross-References

Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, said, "But what is meant by my `fellow man'?"

Romans 10:3
Ignorant of the righteousness which God provides and building their hopes upon a righteousness of their own, they have refused submission to God's righteousness.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unclean spirits - Persons who were possessed of evil spirits.

Thou art the Son of God - The Son of God, by way of eminence. In this place it is equivalent to the Messiah, who was, among the Jews, called the Son of God. Hence, they were charged not to make him known, because he was not desirous that it should be blazoned abroad that he claimed to be the Messiah. He had not yet done what he wished in order to establish his claims to the Messiahship. He was poor and unhonored, and the claim would be treated as that of an impostor. “For the present,” therefore, he did not wish that it should be proclaimed abroad that he was the Messiah. The circumstance here referred to demonstrates the existence of evil spirits. If these were merely diseased or deranged persons, then it is strange that they should be endowed with knowledge so much superior to those in health. If they were under the influence of an order of spirits superior to man - whose appropriate habitation was in another world - then it is not strange that they should know him, even in the midst of his poverty, to be the Messiah, the Son of God.