Matthew 16:20

Good News Translation

Then Jesus ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.

Cross References

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

Matthew 17:9

As they came down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, “Don't tell anyone about this vision you have seen until the Son of Man has been raised from death.”

Matthew 8:4

Then Jesus said to him, “Listen! Don't tell anyone, but go straight to the priest and let him examine you; then in order to prove to everyone that you are cured, offer the sacrifice that Moses ordered.”

Mark 8:30

Then Jesus ordered them, “Do not tell anyone about me.”

Mark 9:9

As they came down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, “Don't tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has risen from death.”

Luke 2:11

This very day in David's town your Savior was born—Christ the Lord!

Luke 9:21

Then Jesus gave them strict orders not to tell this to anyone.

Luke 9:36

When the voice stopped, there was Jesus all alone. The disciples kept quiet about all this and told no one at that time anything they had seen.

John 1:41

At once he found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah.” (This word means “Christ.”)

John 1:45

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one whom Moses wrote about in the book of the Law and whom the prophets also wrote about. He is Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth.”

John 11:27

“Yes, Lord!” she answered. “I do believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”

John 20:31

But these have been written in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through your faith in him you may have life.

Acts 2:36

“All the people of Israel, then, are to know for sure that this Jesus, whom you crucified, is the one that God has made Lord and Messiah!”

1 John 2:22

Who, then, is the liar? It is those who say that Jesus is not the Messiah. Such people are the Enemy of Christ—they reject both the Father and the Son.

1 John 5:1

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves a father loves his child also.