Mark 4:1

Plain English Version

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.

Cross References

Mark 2:13

After that, Jesus left the house and walked along next to the lake. The people from the town kept coming to him, so he kept on teaching them.

Mark 3:7

Jesus and his followers went away to the big lake, called Lake Galilee, and a big mob of people followed them.

Mark 3:9

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.”

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 5:21

Jesus and his followers got back into the boat and went to the other side of the lake. A really big mob of people were waiting for them there, beside the water.