Mark 3:9 - Plain English Version

^9-10 Jesus made lots of people better that day, and a lot more people wanted to touch him to get better too. A lot of people pushed up close to him, so he said to his followers, “Get a boat ready for me. I might need more room. If they push me too much, I will get up on that boat.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And He told His disciples to have a little boat in [constant] readiness for Him because of the crowd, lest they press hard upon Him and crush Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And he spake to his disciples, that a little boat should wait on him because of the crowd, lest they should throng him:

Common English Bible

⁹ Jesus told his disciples to get a small boat ready for him so the crowd wouldn’t crush him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And he told his disciples that a small boat would be useful to him, because of the crowd, lest they press upon him.

Mark 3:9 Cross References

Mark 4:1

Jesus went down to the lake again, and he started to teach people. A big mob of people went to listen to him, so he got into a boat and sat in it. He was a little bit away from the dry ground. All the people stayed on the dry ground and listened to his words.

Mark 4:36

So they left all the other people behind, and his followers started to take him across the lake in their boat. Some other people got into their boats and followed them.

Mark 5:2

There was a man there that had a bad spirit in him. He was like a crazy man. He camped in the cemetery there. Before Jesus came to that place, that man walked around in the cemetery, and all over the hills there, and he yelled out and screamed all the time. He did that in the day time and also at night time. And he cut himself with stones. People couldn’t tie him up, not even with chains. They tried to do that lots of times. They tied up his hands and his feet, but it was no good. He was too strong. He just broke those chains every time. Nobody was strong enough to hold him or make him sit down quiet. When Jesus got out of the boat,

Mark 5:30

Jesus knew straight away that power went out from him, so he stopped walking, turned around, and asked the people, “Who touched my clothes?”

Mark 6:32

Then Jesus and his followers got into a boat and started to go across the lake, to a quiet place away from all the people. But lots of people saw them leave.

John 6:15

Jesus knew that they wanted to force him to be their big boss, and the big boss for the whole Israel nation. He didn’t want them to do that, so he left them, and he went up the hill by himself.