Large Crowds Come to Jesus

⁷ Jesus led his disciples down to the shore of the lake. Large crowds followed him from Galilee, Judea, ⁸ and Jerusalem. People came from Idumea, as well as other places east of the Jordan River. They also came from the region around the towns of Tyre and Sidon. All of these crowds came because they had heard what Jesus was doing. ^9 (A) He even had to tell his disciples to get a boat ready to keep him from being crushed by the crowds.