Mark 7:36

Mark 7:36. And he charged them, &c.— See on Matthew 8:4. Dr. Stanhope, in the 3rd vol. of his Comment. on the Epistles and Gospels, p. 397 assigns the following reasons for our Saviour's forbidding the publication of his miracles. 1. To avoid, as much as was possible, the envy and opposition of the Pharisees. 2. To secure his life from their malice, till the appointed time. 3. To prevent any sedition or tumults among the people. And, 4. To set us an example of humility, of doing good for good's sake or for God's sake; which forbids ostentation, and seeking the esteem and admiration of men; because this would be, in effect, to make new masters to ourselves, and, by a base degeneracy of spirit, to become slaves to our fellow-creatures.