When Jesus had crossed again in a boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.

His disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing against you and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

As Jesus came ashore he saw the large crowd and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he taught them many things.

Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dispersed the crowd.

After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.

In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,

A member of the crowd said to him, “Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that makes him mute.

Now they wanted to arrest him (but they feared the crowd), because they realized that he told this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

If David himself calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.

Then he sat down opposite the offering box, and watched the crowd putting coins into it. Many rich people were throwing in large amounts.

Because he wanted to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them. Then, after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.

So John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God.

But the news about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering together to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses.

Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.

Soon afterward Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.

When John’s messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Now Jesus’ mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd.

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds pressed around him.

Then a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son – he is my only child!