Matthew 16:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.

Matthew 16:20 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 8:30
And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.
Luke 9:21
And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;
John 1:41
He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
Matthew 17:9
And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.
Luke 9:36
And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-20)

We have here a private conference which Christ had with his disciples concerning himself. It was in the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, the utmost borders of the land of Canaan northward; there in that remote corner, perhaps, there was less flocking after him than in other places, which gave him leisure for this private conversation with his disciples. Note, When ministers are abridged in their public…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ--Now that He had been so explicit, they might naturally think the time come for giving it out openly; but here they are told it had not. Announcement of His Approaching Death and Rebuke of Peter (Mt 16:21-28). The occasion here is evidently the same.