Matthew 13:2
Good News Translation
The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the crowd stood on the shore.

New Revised Standard Version
Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach.

Contemporary English Version
Such large crowds gathered around him that he had to sit in a boat, while the people stood on the shore.

New American Bible
Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore.

great.

Matthew 4:25 And much people followed him from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.

Matthew 15:30 And there came to him great multitudes, having with them the dumb, the blind, the lame, the maimed, and many others: and they cast them down at his feet, and he healed them:

Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

Luke 8:4-8 And when a very great multitude was gathered together and hastened out of the cities, unto him, he spoke by a similitude. . . .

so.

Mark 4:1 And again he began to teach by the sea side; and a great multitude was gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a ship and sat in the sea: and all the multitude was upon the land by the sea side.

Luke 5:3 And going into one of the ships that was Simon's, he desired him to draw back a little from the land. And sitting, he taught the multitudes out of the ship.

a ship.

Context
The Parable of the Sower
1The same day Jesus going out of the house, sat by the sea side. 2And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore. 3And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.…
Cross References
Luke 5:3
And going into one of the ships that was Simon's, he desired him to draw back a little from the land. And sitting, he taught the multitudes out of the ship.

Luke 8:4
And when a very great multitude was gathered together and hastened out of the cities, unto him, he spoke by a similitude.

Matthew 13:1
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