Matthew Chapter 13 verse 2 Holy Bible
And there were gathered unto him great multitudes, so that he entered into a boat, and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach.
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And great numbers of people came together to him, so that he got into a boat; and the people took up their position by the sea.
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And great crowds were gathered together to him, so that going on board ship himself he sat down, and the whole crowd stood on the shore.
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And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
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Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.
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and gathered together unto him were many multitudes, so that he having gone into the boat did sit down, and all the multitude on the beach did stand,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship. The article wrongly inserted in the Received Text (τὸ πλοῖον) suggests that it was the boat which, as some think, waited upon him. (For another occasion when he taught from a boat, cf. Luke 5:3.) And sat; and the whole multitude stood; was standing. The position of ἱστήκει at the end of the sentence in the Greek emphasizes their attitude. Their numbers compelled it, and they disregarded the fatigue. Further, the tense (pluperf., equivalent to imperf.) pictures them as patiently standing there. On the shore; beach (Revised Version); ἐπὶ τὸν αἰγιαλόν: i.e. this part at least of the shore was covered with sand or pebbles. Possibly we have signs of an eyewitness, both in the exact description of the spot, and in the vividness of the ἱστήκει (comp. John 1:35, al.; and Bishop Westcott's remarks in Expositor, III. 5:248; cf., too, Introduction, p. 12.).
