Mark 7:36 Meaning and Explanation
“And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;”
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Read Full Chapter →Jesus charges them to tell no one, but the more he forbids it, the more widely they proclaim it.
What Does Mark 7:36 Mean?
The command to silence fits his pattern throughout Mark (1:44; 5:43): he will not be reduced to a wonder-worker, known apart from the cross toward which he walks, and his hour keeps its own appointed pace. But astonished joy is hard to govern, and the witnesses publish it all the more.
Mark lets the irony stand: the one secret that cannot be kept is mercy received. Without excusing the disobedience, the verse testifies to something irrepressible in the news of what Christ has done. Those he has healed have always found silence the harder commandment.
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What does Mark 7:36 mean?
Jesus charges them to tell no one, but the more he forbids it, the more widely they proclaim it.