Jesus might wanted to keep His identity in secret, because if people said to crowds that Jesus was the Messiah, and the fact that He was healing the sick, that meant that everybody was going to know about the miracles He had performed, a lot of people were going to follow Jesus everywhere he went, and the sick would ask Jesus to heal them. Jesus’ objective was primarily to teach and not to heal. Another reason why Jesus wanted to keep His identity secret, was that if demons spread to crowds who Jesus was, people were going to have a very bad image of Jesus and probably think that Jesus was not the Messiah but that He was some kind of demon. Jesus did not want His word and His identity to be spread by the demons. Many Jews had a lot of
