1. Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around him and hearing the word of God, he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret,
2. and he saw two boats there beside the lake, but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.
3. And he got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out from the land a little. And he sat down and began to teach the crowds from the boat.