![]() Jesus silences the evil spirits in Capernaum, at Mark 1:25, but remains silent himself in the face of his accusers, at Mark 14:61 in Luke's Gospel he rebukes the Pharisees during the Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem saying that were he to silence his disciples, the very stones would cry out yet in the period beforehand he strictly admonished the disciples to keep silent about his ministry. ![]() While one hymn exhorts the believer "Tell out my soul", another warns "Let all mortal flesh keep silence" Psalm 62, in the New King James Version, begins "truly my soul silently waits for God", while Psalm 109 starts "Do not keep silent, oh God of my praise". ![]() C hristianity has a deeply ambivalent relationship with silence. ![]()
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