Mark 4:1
Good News Translation
Again Jesus began to teach beside Lake Galilee. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it. The boat was out in the water, and the crowd stood on the shore at the water's edge.

New Revised Standard Version
Again he began to teach beside the sea. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the sea and sat there, while the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.

Contemporary English Version
The next time Jesus taught beside Lake Galilee, a big crowd gathered. It was so large that he had to sit in a boat out on the lake, while the people stood on the shore.

New American Bible
On another occasion he began to teach by the sea. A very large crowd gathered around him so that he got into a boat on the sea and sat down. And the whole crowd was beside the sea on land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And again he began to teach by the sea side; and a great multitude was gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a ship and sat in the sea: and all the multitude was upon the land by the sea side.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And again he began to teach by the sea side; and a great multitude was gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a ship and sat in the sea: and all the multitude was upon the land by the sea side.

he began.

Mark 2:13 And he went forth again to the sea side: and all the multitude came to him. And he taught them.

Matthew 13:1,2 The same day Jesus going out of the house, sat by the sea side. . . .

*etc:

Luke 8:4 And when a very great multitude was gathered together and hastened out of the cities, unto him, he spoke by a similitude.

*etc:

so that.

Luke 5:1-3 And it came to pass, that when the multitudes pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth, . . .

Context
The Parable of the Sower
1And again he began to teach by the sea side; and a great multitude was gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a ship and sat in the sea: and all the multitude was upon the land by the sea side. 2And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in his doctrine:…
Cross References
Matthew 13:1
The same day Jesus going out of the house, sat by the sea side.

Mark 2:13
And he went forth again to the sea side: and all the multitude came to him. And he taught them.

Mark 3:7
But Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea; and a great multitude followed him from Galilee and Judea,

Mark 3:9
And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

Mark 4:36
And sending away the multitude, they take him even as he was in the ship: and there were other ships with him.

Mark 5:2
And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the monuments a man with an unclean spirit,

Mark 5:21
And when Jesus had passed again in the ship over the strait, a great multitude assembled together unto him, and he was nigh unto the sea.

Luke 5:1
And it came to pass, that when the multitudes pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth,

Luke 5:3
And going into one of the ships that was Simon's, he desired him to draw back a little from the land. And sitting, he taught the multitudes out of the ship.

Luke 8:4
And when a very great multitude was gathered together and hastened out of the cities, unto him, he spoke by a similitude.

Mark 3:35
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