◄ Mark 3:9 ►
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Good News Translation
The crowd was so large that Jesus told his disciples to get a boat ready for him, so that the people would not crush him.

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

Contemporary English Version
He even had to tell his disciples to get a boat ready to keep him from being crushed by the crowds.

New American Bible
He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

because.

Mark 5:30 And immediately Jesus knowing in himself the virtue that had proceeded from him, turning to the multitude, said: Who hath touched my garments?

John 6:15 Jesus therefore, when he knew that they would come to take him by force and make him king, fled again into the mountains, himself alone.

Context
Multitudes Follow Jesus
…8And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and from beyond the Jordan. And they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing the things which he did, came to him. 9And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him. 10For he healed many, so that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had evils.…
Cross References
Matthew 15:39
And having dismissed the multitude, he went up into a boat, and came into the coasts of Magedan.

Mark 4:1
And again he began to teach by the sea side; and a great multitude was gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a ship and sat in the sea: and all the multitude was upon the land by the sea side.

Mark 4:36
And sending away the multitude, they take him even as he was in the ship: and there were other ships with him.

Mark 5:2
And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the monuments a man with an unclean spirit,

Mark 6:32
And going up into a ship, they went into a desert place apart.

Luke 5:1
And it came to pass, that when the multitudes pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth,

Luke 5:3
And going into one of the ships that was Simon's, he desired him to draw back a little from the land. And sitting, he taught the multitudes out of the ship.

Mark 3:8
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