Mark 7:36
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;
KJV
καὶ διεστείλατο αὐτοῖς ἵνα μηδενὶ λέγωσιν· ὅσον δὲ αὐτοῖς διεστέλλετο, αὐτοὶ μᾶλλον περισσότερον ἐκήρυσσον.
Greek NT
Et præcepit illis ne cui dicerent. Quanto autem eis præcipiebat, tanto magis plus prædicabant :
Vulgate
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.
ASV
And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- λέγωσιν — SBLGNT
- λέγωσιν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- εἴπωσιν — Robinson-Pierpont
- αὐτοῖς διεστέλλετο αὐτοὶ , — SBLGNT
- αὐτοῖς διεστέλλετο αὐτοὶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- αὐτὸς αὐτοῖς διεστέλλετο — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1504Often Jesus asks the sick to believe.107 He makes use of signs to heal: spittle and the laying on of hands,108 mud and washing.109 The sick try to touch him, "for power came forth from him and healed them all."110 and so in the sacraments Christ continues to "touch" us in order to heal us.
Cross-references
- Mark 1:43 — And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away;
- Mark 1:44 — And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
- Mark 3:12 — And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
- Mark 5:43 — And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
- Mark 5:43 — And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
- Mark 8:26 — And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.
- Mark 8:26 — And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.
- Mark 8:30 — And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.
- Matt 8:4 — And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
- Matt 8:4 — And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
- Matt 9:31 — But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
- Matt 12:16 — And charged them that they should not make him known: