Mark 3:12
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New International Version (©2011)
But he gave them strict orders not to tell others about him.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But Jesus sternly commanded the spirits not to reveal who he was.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

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

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
And He would strongly warn them not to make Him known.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But he sternly ordered them again and again not to tell people who he was.

NET Bible (©2006)
But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And he greatly rebuked them lest they would reveal him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He gave them orders not to tell people who he was.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he sternly charged them that they should not make him known.

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

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

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

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

English Revised 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.

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

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

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:6-12 All our sicknesses and calamities spring from the anger of God against our sins. Their removal, or the making them blessings to us, was purchased to us by the blood of Christ. But the plagues and diseases of our souls, of our hearts, are chiefly to be dreaded; and He can heal them also by a word. May more and more press to Christ to be healed of these plagues, and to be delivered from the enemies of their souls.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - (See notes on Mark 1:44.)

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

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…10For he had healed many; so that they pressed on him for to touch him, as many as had plagues. 11And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, You are the Son of God. 12And he straightly charged them that they should not make him known.

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."