Keep Quiet About a Miracle?

Yes, there are other examples. Let's get them all out on the table. I looked up the word "tell" in Matthew, Mark, and Luke on biblegateway.com and here are the ones I found.

• The Leper (Matthew 8:4; Luke 5:14) - The man came to Jesus and worshipped Him and asked to be healed. Jesus healed him, sent him to the priest and told him not to tell.
• Peter's Confession (Matthew 16:20; Mark 8:30) - Peter confessed via the Holy Spirit that Jesus was the Christ. Jesus charged all those listening not to tell.
• The Transfiguration (Matthew 17:9; Mark 9:9; Luke 9:21) - Jesus appeared with Moses and Elijah and God said that of those three only Jesus was the Son of God and to be hearkened to in that manner. Peter, James, and John were charged not to tell what they saw until Jesus was resurrected.
• The Deaf Man (Mark 7:36) - Jesus healed the deaf man with the speech impediment and told no one to tell, but they told anyway.
• The Blind Man (Mark 8:26) - Jesus healed the blind man at Bethsaida after he led him privately out of town and he told him not to go back into town and not to tell anyone.
• Jarius' Daughter (Luke 8:56) - The dead child was brought back to life after Jarius sought out Jesus. It's only in the Luke passage that Jesus charged them not to tell.

I'm not a scholar, but I can only make some observations. First of all, in the cases of the sick people, they either came to Him out of faith or someone brought them to Jesus out of faith or in the case of the dead girl, her father came to Jesus out of his own personal faith.

That says something to me about why they were healed. But why were they charged not to tell? Again, I can only give my unschooled opinion.

Jesus, Himself, said that His primary purpose on the earth as fully man and fully God was to "seek and save that which was lost". He couldn't spend all of this time healing or else He would be swamped with mass mobs of people just wanting a healing. Many crowds followed Him in the bible. But healing was not His primary purpose on this earth.

And some of those would NOT have had faith, but only curiousity or demands. Remember Herod, after killing John the Baptist, wanted Jesus to perform a miracle for him and he got NOTHING from Jesus.....not even a word?

Secondly, the more He supernaturally healed and taught in the presence or "ear-shot" of the Pharisees, the more that they desired to kill Him. Jesus needed to keep the Pharisees at bay until their time to kill Him was at hand. Keeping Himself constantly in the public eye and in the center of hot debate detracted from His mission.....to seek and to save that which is lost. (Luke 19:10)

He healed, but that wasn't His chief mission.
He taught as one with authority, but that wasn't His chief mission.

His chief mission was to make known the truth of the gospel. Salvation was his chief mission. Healing those who came to Him by faith or had petitions made for them by the faith of someone else was in His heart, but was secondary to His obedience to the Father for salvation's sake.