Near the shore where Jesus was teaching the people, the crowd got too big so He climbed into a boat that had been left there by Simon because he had gone to wash his nets. Then Jesus taught the people from the boat.
1 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,2 and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.3 Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
