42 Grk “but as much as he ordered them, these rather so much more proclaimed.” Greek tends to omit direct objects when they are clear from the context, but these usually need to be supplied for the modern English reader. Here what Jesus ordered has been clarified (“ordered them not to do this”), and the pronoun “it” has been supplied after “proclaimed.”

In other versions

And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.

Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it.

He ordered them to tell no one, but the more he ordered them, the more they proclaimed it.

Jesus told the crowd not to tell anyone, but the more he told them not to, the more they spread the news.

And he ordered them that they should say nothing, but as much as he ordered them not to, they proclaimed it even more instead.

And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;

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