Why did Jesus tell his diciples to tell no one that he was the christ? Mather 16:20?

Question

And why did he tell people that he healed (like the two blind men in mathew 9:30) to tell no one about it?

Answer 1

Because they were all tripping......those mushrooms had them seeing all kinds of shite!

Answer 2

Think about it this way. If you help an old lady across the street or gave to the red cross would you tell everyone so that they knew the good deed that you did? Jesus had principals, he was not selfish, selfcenter and egotistical. Therefore if he told everyone it would be like gloating at the good thing he did. He let his work speak for itself. The idea was that he is Gods son and he is doing god's work. Therefore God should take the credit and not himself.

Answer 3

One reason, as people have said, was that it wasn't the right time in his message; he wanted to help people, but didn't want the ramifications of public notoriety (which he had anyway, though).

Another large reason is because Jesus was not the only guy walking around claiming to be the Messiah. There were different Jews people over that century who made claims as to being of divine issue and the promised one of God.

The Jews were tired of being under Roman rule (the Romans controlled, I think, even when and where the priest could put on his priestly garments) and simply wanted their freedom back. I'm sure the plight of their ancestors in Egypt was a motif for them. Accordingly, numerous people came along pledging themselves as the messiah that would liberate them politically from Rome, and the Zealot movement of Jesus' time was actually pushing actively for a violent overthrow of the regime.

If Jesus had made overt claims about being the promised liberator in that context, he would have simply been assumed to be yet one more of these guys; and people would have expected him to be referring to delivering the people from Roman rule through a revolution of sorts.

(Note that even the disciples seemed to expect Jesus to liberate them politically; and the case has even been made that Judas turned Jesus in partly in order to "force" his hand and have him start the revolution. Jesus eschewed violence, however, and made the disciples put up their swords -- and Judas killed himself after realizing that he had just destroyed Jesus and his ministry, as well as his own prestige in that ministry.)

Jesus could not afford to be associated with that sort of violent reform. He was here about a much larger, much important kingdom -- the kingdom of God -- which is not politically but internal and spiritual, a change of heart... a heart where God rules, not sin.

He shied away from having healed people promote his "messiah" message, so that he could try and get his real message across as much as possible and not have it distracted by people simply seeking to use him politically for their own ends. He didn't want to be labeled as a political revolutionary with everyone else who made the "messiah" claim.

Answer 4

So he would have everyone confused. He also said this...

"Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." According to the gospels (Mt.26:69-75, Mk.14:66-72, Lk.22:55-62, Jn.15:18-27),

Answer 5

He was not trying to get noticed yet. If the word got out too early that He was the Christ-he would have been killed to early-and not fulfilled prophecy. He had to die on passover in order to be the "Lamb of God".

Answer 6

Because he did not want a large scene and the time was not right to make himself known at large.

Answer 7

Maybe he felt it would make more of an impression if they learned it on their own.
Because great crowds of people would follow him around.

Answer 8

because he didn't want everyone coming to him asking for things! and people get greedy!