“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;”
Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it — the Messianic Secret command fails again, as it consistently does throughout Mark. The more he did so, the more they kept talking about it: the prohibition has the opposite of the intended effect. The miracle is too significant to contain; the command to silence is overwhelmed by the compulsion to testify. The progressive intensification (the more he did so, the more they talked) captures the futility of attempting to suppress news of the kingdom's arrival.
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