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Mark 3:9

The Pulpit Commentary on Mark 3:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship ( πλοιάριον)—literally, a little boat—should wait on him προσκαρτερῆ αὐτῷ)—literally, should be in close attendance upon him—because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

This shows in a very graphic manner how assiduously and closely the crowd pressed upon him, so that he was obliged to have a little boat always in readiness, in which he might take refuge when the pressure became too great, and so address them with greater freedom from the boat.

St. Luke () says, "He sat down, and taught the people out of the ship," making the boat, so to speak, his pulpit.

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