Mark 3:7-9 ▼

7 Jesus departed with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him;

8 hearing all that he was doing, they came to him in great numbers from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and the region around Tyre and Sidon.

9 He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him;