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When Jesus healed people and performed miracles, why would he tell them not to say anything to anyone about what happened?
 

Dino246

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Welcome to CC, EverlyGrace...
Jesus knew that people would follow His just to see a miracle, or just to "get" one for themselves. He wanted people to come to real faith in God, and He knew that people who followed Him just for the miracles would turn away when hardships came.
 
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When Jesus healed people and performed miracles, why would he tell them not to say anything to anyone about what happened?
Maybe He wanted the scribes and pharisees and whosoever had access to search the scripture according to the miracles and testimonies of the people he healed, fed, ressurected, etc....

John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Deut 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

God Bless!
 
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Welcome to CC, EverlyGrace...
Jesus knew that people would follow His just to see a miracle, or just to "get" one for themselves. He wanted people to come to real faith in God, and He knew that people who followed Him just for the miracles would turn away when hardships came.
Thank you for this, I've often wondered too and it makes a lot of sense.
 

Deuteronomy

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When Jesus healed people and performed miracles, why would he tell them not to say anything to anyone about what happened?
Hello EverlyGrace, this is not the entire story, but it is certainly part of it.

Mark 1
40 A leper came to Jesus, beseeching Him and falling on his knees before Him, and saying, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”
41 Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, and *said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.”
42 Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.
43 And He sternly warned him and immediately sent him away,
44 and He said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
45 But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the news around, to such an extent that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but stayed out in unpopulated areas; and they were coming to Him from everywhere.

~Deut
 

JaumeJ

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When Jesus healed people and performed miracles, why would he tell them not to say anything to anyone about what happened?
Chal that up to many things but first perfect humility.
 
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When Jesus healed people and performed miracles, why would he tell them not to say anything to anyone about what happened?
Not all the time. Jesus did some very public signs. The most public was probably the resurrection of Lazarus, that made the priests who are against him decided that he must die. (John 11)
 
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People saw the miracles and had sight faith (the flesh) which created false believers.

“Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did. But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.” John 2:23–25 (KJV 1900)

But he healed any who had true faith because it identified those he would die for telling him it was OK to heal them seeing they were justified.