Mark 7:36

διεστείλατο. See on Mark 5:19; Mark 5:43. He gave the charge once; and then, the more He repeated it (διεστέλλετο), the more they continued to disregard it (ἐκήρυσσον). The comparative is sometimes strengthened by μᾶλλον (2 Corinthians 7:13; Philippians 1:23), sometimes by ἔτι (Hebrews 7:15), and περισσεύω may have both (Philippians 1:9). But here μᾶλλον might mean potius, “instead of being silent they published it more exceedingly.” These commands to be silent were usually disregarded, but that does not prove that they ought not to have been given. The Decalogue is not abrogated because of man’s disobedience. Wrede (Messiasgeheimnis, p. 133) sees a contradiction between this and Mark 7:33. But Mark 7:33 does not say that Christ took the man away from everybody. No doubt some of the crowd followed, and they were people who previously had seen little or nothing of His work as a Healer. They would naturally be very demonstrative.