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 \v 8 and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and beyond the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon, a great crowd, when they heard everything he was doing, came to him.
 
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-\v 9 He said to his disciples to have a boat ready for him because the pressure of the crowd was so great, they might crush him.
-\v 10 He healed many, so many that all who had afflictions pressed upon him; they were hoping just to touch him.
+\v 9 And he asked his disciples to have a small boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him.
+\v 10 For he healed many so that all who had afflictions eagerly approached him in order to touch him.
 
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 \v 11 Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, and they said, "You are the Son of God."