Mark 3:7-12
Read Mark 3 in full →7aAnd Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and ba great multitude from Galilee followed; and from Judea, 8and from Jerusalem, and from aIdumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of bTyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him. 9aAnd He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him; 10for He had ahealed many, with the result that all those who had bafflictions pressed around Him in order to ctouch Him. 11And whenever the unclean spirits were seeing Him, they would fall down before Him and cry out, saying, “You are athe Son of God!” 12And He aearnestly warned them not to 1tell who He was.