Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 8:30

30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.

Luke reports no more of this then Mark, but Matthew reports it much larger giving us a further reply of Christ to Peter. (See the Notes on Matth. 16.15.) which we have there discoursed largely upon. I shall only say here, That if so great a point as Peters Primacy, had been understood by Christs Disciples of that age, to have been settled by that answer of our Saviour, it is likely two of the Evangelists would not have omitted an account of it. If they had forgotten it, there is no doubt but some or other of Christs Disciples, would have put them in mind of it. Our Saviours charge that they should tell no Man of him, seemeth to him, that altho our Saviour was willing to be taken notice of as a Prophet, yet he was not willing as yet to be taken notice of as the Messiah, or Son of God, which latter Matthew reports as added to his Confession; and perhaps both Mark and Luke in their following Words, give us the Reason, for if we observe it, he immediately falls into a discourse of his suffering, and he might possibly think, that a weak Faith of his Divine Nature would be overthrown by the sight of his subsequent sufferings. So that he reserved the publication of himself to be the Son of God, until such time when (as the Apo[illegible: 1 letter]tle saith, Rom. 1.4.) he was declared so with Power, according to the Spirit of Holiness, by his Resurrection from the Dead.