“And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;”
Jesus strictly warned them not to tell this to anyone — the Messianic Secret applied to Peter's correct confession: silence about the correct identification. The strictly warned (epitimasas) is the same verb used for rebuking demons and the storm — the urgency of the command.
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