9. The crowd was so large that Jesus told his disciples to get a boat ready for him, so that the people would not crush him.
10. He had healed many people, and all those who were ill kept pushing their way to him in order to touch him.
11. And whenever the people who had evil spirits in them saw him, they would fall down before him and scream, “You are the Son of God!”
12. Jesus sternly ordered the evil spirits not to tell anyone who he was.
13. Then Jesus went up a hill and called to himself the men he wanted. They came to him,