Mark 3:7-12

7Jesus left that place and he went away to Lake Galilee with his disciples. A large crowd of people from Galilee followed them.

8Many people also came to him from Judea, from Jerusalem and from a region of Israel called Idumea. They also came from places on the other side of the Jordan River, and from the towns called Tyre and Sidon. Many people had heard about the things that Jesus was doing. That is why all these people came to him.

9The crowd was very large. So Jesus asked his disciples to prepare a small boat for him. They did this so that the people would not push against him.

10Sick people were pushing to the front, because they were trying to touch him. They knew that he had made many people well.

11Often, a person with a bad spirit saw Jesus. Then, the spirit caused the person to fall down on the ground in front of Jesus. The spirit caused that person to shout out, ‘You are the Son of God.’

12Jesus often had to say to the bad spirits, ‘You must not tell anyone who I am.’