Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 5:43

43 And he charged them straightly, that no man should know it: and commanded that something should be given her to eat.

There is nothing in this History needeth further Notes for Explication, than what we gave in the Notes on Matthew 9. to which I here refer the Reader. There is nothing more accountable in all the passages of our Saviours Life, recorded by the Evangelists. Then the Charges that he gave to several Persons healed by him. That no man should know it. Especially if we consider, 1. That he did not charge all so, he bid the Person possessed with the Devil, v. 29. of this Chapter, go home to his Friends, and tell them how great things the Lord had done for him. 2. That he could not expect to be concealed, had they yielded obedience, for his Miracles were done openly, and it was not like that all would keep silence, nay he commanded the Leper to go and shew himself to the Priests. 3. Few of those thus Charged, did keep silence. Nor do we ever find that Christ reflected blame on them, from which yet we cannot acquit them. But we must not think to understand the Reasons of all Christs Actions and Speeches, he had doubtless wise ends in doing it, tho we do not understand them.