Timothy Maas Supporter Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U. S. Army

Four possible reasons:

1) There was a timing to Jesus' redemptive mission that would be disrupted if His identity as the Messiah were revealed or publicized before God's intended moment. (This applied not just to demons, but even to as well-intentioned a source as Jesus' own mother, as Jesus told Mary in John 2:4.)

2) Such "publicity" about Jesus' supernatural powers would also cause human attention to be diverted away from people realizing their overriding spiritual need for the salvation He was offering (and that only He could accomplish through His upcoming death and resurrection) to material or political concerns such as feeding people (as was the case when He fed the five thousand with five loaves and two fish in Matthew 14), or freeing Palestine from Roman rule.

3) In the case of the demons that Jesus cast out proclaiming His identity, Jesus would not have wanted such witness to come from an unclean or evil source, but from those who were motivated by the Holy Spirit.

4) His mission of teaching and preaching would become overshadowed if He were recognized only as a worker of supernatural healings or miracles (even if those actions benefited others).

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