⁹ He instructed his disciples to bring around a boat and to have it standing ready to rescue him in case he was crowded off the beach. ¹⁰ For there had been many healings that day and as a result great numbers of sick people were crowding around him, trying to touch him.

¹¹ And whenever those possessed by demons caught sight of him they would fall down before him shrieking, “You are the Son of God!”