and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and the other side of the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon a great crowd came to him because they[a] heard all that he was doing. And he told his disciples that a small boat should stand ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not press upon him.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 3:8 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as causal