⁹ Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him.

The Parable of the Sower^(A)(B)

4 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake.^(C) The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge.

³⁶ Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat.^(A) There were also other boats with him.

Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman^(A)

²¹ When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake,^(B) a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake.^(C)