Why Did Jesus Want People to Keep Silent About His Miracles?

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast, talks with Stacy who wonders why Jesus wanted people to keep silent about His Miracles.

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[johnpeters]

We know that God knew everyone was still going to spread the news of these miracles around. If he really didn't want the news to get out he would have shut up their lips, or not had it recorded in scripture. I think this is Jesus way of showing that particular individual that the healing was JUST FOR THEM, not for the whole world to know about. It's just like today, God might heal someone from Cancer. But he doesn't do it just so that he will be recognized for it, but rather because it was something he wanted to do for that person.

[johnholman]

I think you missed the point of her question. I believe she wanted to know why Jesus healed the leper and told him not to tell anybody.

[jeremymwilliams]

From my own experiences and understanding, I believe that Jesus knew that spreading of such news would cause his mission to be over very quickly. Perhaps He wanted (or needed) to perform more miracles and establish more of a firm understanding of His purpose/mission to His disciples before it was finished. It is a good question. I thought the answer was good, but it didn’t sit too well with me. Different minds and learning styles. There’s nothing wrong with that at all :)

[dustinewing]

Jesus told them not to preach about their miracle because people dont want to hear the truth. If you go around preaching about a miracle that happened to you; all of the evil people will build an army against you.

Your coworker doesn't want to hear about God helping you, if you tell them about these things, they'll build an army against you.

You can't force people to wake up, they have to truly want it. And if you try to get them to see the truth, they'll all focus their hate on you.

[justingonzalez]

Dude did u answer her simple question?

[SunnysBibleASMR]

Ummmm 🤨 Jesus told them not to tell many things until a certain time or at all because it was about TIMING things right or to not bring attention to things until the specific time so that things would happen in a certain way and to assure that they wouldn’t prevent his crucifixion- he came to be both the example & the sacrifice for all!

[megaloschemos]

Sorry I did not understand Hank's answer

[Ahardly]

You didn't answer that AT ALL! Are you human? Do you not have ears? You've rambled off into something that has nothing to do with the question! How frustrating it is to listen to you!