² Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat^(A) and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore.

⁹ Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him. ¹⁰ For he had healed many,^(A) so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him.^(B)

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.