Many times, Jesus would heal someone and then tell that person and others not to spread the news about it. Yet occasionally, he healed someone and told that person to go tell others about it. Why this seeming contradiction? Jesus Told People Not to Tell about His Healings For example, at the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry, all three synoptists record that a leper came to Jesus and asked him to heal him. Mark records, “A leper came to him... Read more