Mark 8:26

‘And he sent him away to his home saying, “Do not even enter into the village.'

As with the deaf and dumb man we may see this as silence enjoined - compare Mark 7:36 (‘tell no one in the village' is in fact a variant reading). The man was to go home without contacting anyone, the matter was not to be publicised. Compare how with the disciples they are not to publicise their new recognition of Jesus as the Christ (Messiah) (Mark 8:30). But such a demand for silence was Jesus' regular policy when He performed outstanding miracles and was expectant of remaining in the area.

Jesus had taken the man out of ‘the village' (Mark 8:23), and now tells him not to return there, but to go straight home. This was, of course, partly to prevent the publicity that might then result in sensation seeking crowds, but it is also clearly a spiritual picture of what the disciples must do once their eyes were opened. They must not proclaim Him as Messiah until after His death and resurrection, for men were mistaken in their conceptions of the Messiah (Mark 8:30).