Matthew 8:18 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁸ Now when Jesus saw large crowds around Him, He gave orders [i.e., to His followers] to leave for the other side [i.e., to go from the west to the east side of Lake Galilee].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Now Jesus, when He saw the great throngs around Him, gave orders to cross to the other side [of the lake].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Now when Jesus saw the crowd, he ordered his disciples to go over to the other side of the lake.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Then Jesus, seeing the great crowds encircling him, gave orders to go across the sea.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And Jesus seeing great multitudes about him, gave orders to pass over the water.

Matthew 8:18 Cross References

Matthew 14:22

Then immediately Jesus ordered the disciples to enter the boat and row on ahead of Him to the other side [i.e., to the west side of Lake Galilee] until He could send the crowds away.

Matthew 8:1

And when He had come down from the mountain [See 5:1], large crowds followed Him.

Mark 4:35

When evening came that day He said to the disciples, “Let us go over to the other side [i.e., the east side of Lake Galilee].”

Mark 5:21

When Jesus had crossed over again in a boat to the other side [i.e., to the northwest shore of the lake, probably in the vicinity of Capernaum], a large crowd gathered around Him along the shore of the lake.

Mark 6:45

And about then Jesus compelled His disciples to get into a boat and go on ahead of Him to the other side [i.e., to the west side of Lake Galilee] to Bethsaida [Note: This was apparently a different “Bethsaida” from the one mentioned in Luke 9:10, which was on the east side of Lake Galilee], while He Himself sent the crowd away.

Mark 8:13

Then He left them and boarded a boat again and sailed to the other side [i.e., the east side of Lake Galilee].

Luke 8:22

Now it happened on one of those days that Jesus entered a boat with His disciples. He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side” [i.e., the east side of Lake Galilee]; so they launched out.

John 6:15

So, [when] Jesus knew that the people were about to come and forcibly take Him and make Him [their] king, He left there again and went to the high plateau [to be] alone [i.e., to pray. See Mark 6:46].