Mark 3:12

And he sternly charged them that they should not make him known.
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Bede

AD 735
In Marc., 1, 15: The Pharisees, thinking it a crime that at the word of the Lord the hand which was diseased was restored to a sound state, agreed to make a pretext of the words spoken byour Saviour. Wherefore it is said, “And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him. "As if every one amongst them did not greater things on the sabbath day, carrying food, reaching forth a cup, and whatever else is necessary for meals. Neither could He, Who said and it was done, be convicted of toiling on the sabbath day. For the strangers followed Him, because they saw the works of His powers, and in order to hear the words of His teaching. But the Jews, induced solely by their opinion of His powers, in avast multitude come to hear Him, and to beg for His aiding health. Wherefore there follows, “And He spake toHis disciples, that they should wait”. Both therefore fell down before the Lord, those who had the plagues of bodily diseas...

Theophylact of Ochrid

AD 1107
But the soldiers of Herod theking are called Herodians, because a certain new heresy had sprung up, which asserted that Herod was the Christ. For the prophecy of Jacob intimated that when the princes of Judah failed then Christ should come; because therefore in the time of Herod none of the Jewish princes remained, and he, an alien, was the sole ruler, some thought that he was the Christ, and set on foot this heresy. These, therefore, werewith the Pharisees trying to kill Christ. It goes on, “But Jesus withdrew Himself with His disciples to the sea;” He fled from their treachery, because the hour of His passion had not yet come, and no place away from Jerusalem was proper for His Passion. By which also He gave an example to His disciples, when they suffer persecution in one city, to flee to another. At the same time again, Hegoes away, that by quitting the ungrateful He might do good to more, “for many followed Him, and He healed them. "For there follows, “And a great multitude from Ga...

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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