Luke 9:21
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New International Version (©2011)
Jesus strictly warned them not to tell this to anyone.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Jesus warned his disciples not to tell anyone who he was.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he strictly charged and commanded them to tell this to no one,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But He warned them and instructed them not to tell this to anyone,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But He strictly warned and instructed them to tell this to no one,

International Standard Version (©2012)
He gave them strict orders, commanding them not to tell this to anyone.

NET Bible (©2006)
But he forcefully commanded them not to tell this to anyone,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
But he admonished them and he warned them that they should not say this to anyone.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He ordered them not to tell this to anyone.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he sternly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;

American King James Version
And he straightly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;

American Standard Version
But he charged them, and commanded them to tell this to no man;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he strictly charging them, commanded they should tell this to no man.

Darby Bible Translation
But, earnestly charging them, he enjoined them to say this to no man,

English Revised Version
But he charged them, and commanded them to tell this to no man;

Webster's Bible Translation
And he strictly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing,

Weymouth New Testament
And Jesus strictly forbad them to tell this to any one;

World English Bible
But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one,

Young's Literal Translation
And having charged them, he commanded them to say this to no one,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

9:18-27 It is an unspeakable comfort that our Lord Jesus is God's Anointed; this signifies that he was both appointed to be the Messiah, and qualified for it. Jesus discourses concerning his own sufferings and death. And so far must his disciples be from thinking how to prevent his sufferings, that they must prepare for their own. We often meet with crosses in the way of duty; and though we must not pull them upon our own heads, yet, when they are laid for us, we must take them up, and carry them after Christ. It is well or ill with us, according as it is well or ill with our souls. The body cannot be happy, if the soul be miserable in the other world; but the soul may be happy, though the body is greatly afflicted and oppressed in this world. We must never be ashamed of Christ and his gospel.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 21. - And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing. It would have been no hard task for the disciples to have gone about with an expression of their earnest conviction that the great Prophet was indeed the long looked-for King Messiah, and thus to have raised the excitable crowds to any wild pitch of enthusiasm. It was only a very short time back that, moved by the miracle of the loaves, the multitudes wished to crown him King by force. That was not the kind of homage Jesus sought; besides which, any such enthusiasm thus evoked would quickly have died away, and a hostile reaction would have set in when the high hopes excited by the idea of King Messiah were contradicted by the life of suffering and self-denial which Jesus sternly set himself to live through to its bitter end. This life he sketched out for them in the severe language of the next verse.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he strictly charged them, and commanded them,.... Though he highly approved of this their confession, and pronounced Peter blessed upon it; and signified that it was a discovery which flesh and blood could not make, but what was made to him his Father: yet he gave them a strict charge, and laid his commands on them,

to tell no man that thing; that he was the Messiah, and the eternal Son of God, and the true God, as well as the son of man, and really man: the reasons for this: See Gill on Matthew 16:20.

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Jesus Predicts His Death
21And he straightly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing; 22Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day. 23And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Matthew 8:4 Then Jesus said to him, "See that you don't tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."
Matthew 9:30 and their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, "See that no one knows about this."
Matthew 16:20 Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.
Mark 8:30 Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.