Mark 1:31-35
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Lexical notes
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Exegesis
- At this point in Jesus' ministry he apparently did not want people (or perhaps not all people) to know who he was. In verse 34, he told the demons not to speak because they knew him, and later (verse 44) he tells a person healed of leprosy not to tell everybody. The man exercised his free agency, however, spreading the news. The result was that so many people were coming to see Jesus that it made it difficult for him to go into towns. It isn't clear from verse 34, though, if that was the reason for Jesus' keeping the demons silent.
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