Mark 3:7-12

A Great Crowd Follows Jesus

7 ¹Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and ²a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea

8 and Jerusalem and ³Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around ⁴Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.

9 And he told his disciples to ⁵have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they ⁶crush him,

10 for ⁷he had healed many, so that all who had ⁸diseases pressed around him ⁹to touch him.

11 ¹⁰And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they ¹¹fell down before him and cried out, “You are ¹²the Son of God. ”

12 And ¹³he strictly ordered them not to make him known.