⁹ When Jesus saw the crowds, he told his ·followers [disciples] to get a boat ready for him to keep people from ·crowding against [crushing] him. ¹⁰ He had healed many people, so all the sick were pushing toward him to touch him. ¹¹ When ·evil [defiling; ^Lunclean; see 1:23] spirits [within people] saw Jesus, they fell down before him and shouted, “You are the Son of God!”