Bible verse
Jesus strictly warned them not to tell this to anyone.
Luke 9:21 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 9.
17 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
18 One day as Jesus was praying in private and the disciples were with Him, He questioned them: “Who do the crowds say I am?”
19 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that a prophet of old has arisen.”
20 “But what about you?” Jesus asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”
21 Jesus strictly warned them not to tell this to anyone.
22 “The Son of Man must suffer many things,” He said. “He must be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”
23 Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
24 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
25 What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
KJV
And he straitly charged them, and commanded [them] to tell no man that thing;
ASV
But he charged them, and commanded them to tell this to no man;
ERV
But he charged them, and commanded them to tell this to no man;
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