Jesus became so popular that the people crowded in to see and hear him wherever he went. At one point there were so many people crowding around him that he asked the Disciples to get a boat ready so he could get in it and push a little way from the shore so he could speak to the crowd.

You might have to overlook my picture today. I tried an experiment using Bitstrips. Let me know what you think. Yeah, I know I need more people to call it a crowd, but you can use your imagination, right?

Mark 3:7-12

Crowds Follow Jesus

7 Jesus went out to the lake with his disciples, and a large crowd followed him. They came from all over Galilee, Judea,8 Jerusalem, Idumea, from east of the Jordan River, and even from as far north as Tyre and Sidon. The news about his miracles had spread far and wide, and vast numbers of people came to see him.

9 Jesus instructed his disciples to have a boat ready so the crowd would not crush him. 10 He had healed many people that day, so all the sick people eagerly pushed forward to touch him. 11 And whenever those possessed by evil[a]spirits caught sight of him, the spirits would throw them to the ground in front of him shrieking, “You are the Son of God!” 12 But Jesus sternly commanded the spirits not to reveal who he was.

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