I asked this question to myself many times: Why did Jesus command people to tell nobody about him making miracles frequently?
It is somewhat difficult to understand why Jesus did not want people to know about the amazing miracles he was doing.
He came to earth as the image of God. His mission was to fix the broken relationship between men and God, however he didn’t want people to know about the miracles that much.
There is only one time Jesus didn’t mind others to know about a miracle. It was the Gadarene demon-possessed man passage. In fact, he told him to go and tell others about it. Mark 5.
The Gospel of Luke tells us in chapter five that Jesus healed a leper and he commanded him to tell no one about it in verse fourteen. After healing him, he told him to go to the priest because that is what the law said, but he did not want anyone else to know about it.
He usually instructed people that were involved in a miracle event not to spread the word, even resurrection miracle witnesses:
“And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done”
That was Jairus's daughter resurrection passage, Mark 5:43. Jesus did it many times:
And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, “See that no one knows about it” Matt 9:30.
Despite Jesus always asked them not to tell anyone, his fame spread in many cities around Palestine. The Bible says he resurrected three people, maybe there were more.
The message to be spread around was not “Jesus would heal your body; Jesus is here to feed the hungry or raise dead people or cast out daemons. That was not the full message.”
He didn’t want to be known as a miracle maker. His objective was something much more important than that.
He wanted people to hold it until the cross and the resurrection, after that, he commanded others close to him to preach the Gospel to the world.
