Teaching from boats- 4:35

Sounds like it was a pretty big day- crowds of people (pleistos ochlos – very large, huge – crowd), Jesus has been in a boat for a lot of the day teaching them- I wonder what month we're in? potentially pretty hot- reflected sun from the water- and a crowd that big- I'd imagine you'd need to throw your voice a fair bit. And I don't how this works exactly (need to find out) but without amplification (did they look out for natural ampitheatres where the acoustics would be better?) I'd think you need a pretty still day. So if this is close to the case, you have a hot, still, day, speaking in a loud voice for a large part of it, to a couple of thousand? people.- probably not that far from Capernaum. ( they go across to the other side- to the country of the Gerasenes/Gaderenes – looks like it might possibly be two different places on the atlas of the bible map, and that it's uncertain where Gergesa was- they put the journey across the lake going down the South end (country of Gadara – Sennabris) coming from near Capernaum.

I wonder why Jesus wanted to go to the other side of the lake. It reads slightly weirdly in the NRSV- And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was- says that in the Greek as well- so is Mark saying he took nothing with him- just the clothes on his back? I've just had a look at France, who mentions this is slightly weird. An aside to this- he mentions v10 – when Jesus was alone with the disciples- does he go out for a lunch break- at some point- because the crowd is there at the end, as it it gets left.