Mark 3:8

Mark 3:8

6 ^aThen the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with ^bthe Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.

A Great Multitude Follows Jesus

7 But Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea. And a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, ^aand from Judea

8 and Jerusalem and Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and those from Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they heard how ^amany things He was doing, came to Him.

9 So He told His disciples that a small boat should be kept ready for Him because of the multitude, lest they should crush Him.

10 For He healed ^amany, so that as many as had afflictions pressed about Him to ^btouch Him.

11 ^aAnd the unclean spirits, whenever they saw Him, fell down before Him and cried out, saying, ^b“You are the Son of God.”

12 But ^aHe sternly warned them that they should not make Him known.

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Hearing what great things he did (akouontev osa poiei). Masculine plural present participle, though plhqov is neuter singular (construction according to sense in both number and gender). This crowd by the sea came from Galilee, Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond Jordan (Decapolis and Perea), Tyre and Sidon, Phoenicia, North, South, East, and Northwest, even from Idumea (mentioned here alone in the N.T.) won by John Hyrcanus to Palestine. "In our Lord's time Idumea was practically a part of Judea with a Jewish circumcised population" (George Adam Smith). Many of these were probably Gentiles (Phoenicia and Decapolis) and may have known only the Greek language. The fame of Jesus had spread through all the regions round about. There was a jam as the crowds came to Jesus by the Sea of Galilee.

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