Mark 3:7-9

International Standard Version

Jesus Encounters a Large Crowd

⁷ So Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. A large crowd from Galilee, Judea, ⁸ Jerusalem, Idumea, from across the Jordan, and from the region around Tyre and Sidon followed him. They came to him because they kept hearing about everything he was doing. ⁹ Jesus^[a] told his disciples to have a boat ready for him so that the crowd wouldn’t crush him,