Mk 3:7-12

The Mercy of Jesus. 7^* Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples.^c A large number of people [followed] from Galilee and from Judea. 8Hearing what he was doing, a large number of people came to him also from Jerusalem, from Idumea, from beyond the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon. 9He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him. 10He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him.^d 11^* And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him and shout, “You are the Son of God.”^e 12He warned them sternly not to make him known.