A Great Crowd Follows Jesus (MRK 3:7-12)

[3:7] Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea

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

[3:9] And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him,

[3:10] for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him.

[3:11] And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”

[3:12] And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.