Matthew 12:16

16 And charged them that they should not make him known:

Ver. 16. That they should not make him known ] This, his ambitious kinsmen, who sought to get credit and glory among men by his worthy works, upbraid him with, John 7:4 ; "If thou do these things, show thyself to the world," say they; and so proclaim that they believed not in him, John 7:7 ; cfJohn 5:44; John 5:44 ; John 12:43 .