New Revised Standard Version
Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach.

Contemporary English Version
Such large crowds gathered around him that he had to sit in a boat, while the people stood on the shore.

New American Bible
Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore.

And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore.

great.

Matthew 4:25 And much people followed him from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.

Matthew 15:30 And there came to him great multitudes, having with them the dumb, the blind, the lame, the maimed, and many others: and they cast them down at his feet, and he healed them:

Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

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

so.

Mark 4:1 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.

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.

a ship.