3:8
People came from several regions. Idumea was the area of Edom, and had been forcibly converted to Judaism in 129 BC. Herod the Great came from that region. Tyre and Sidon were Phoniecian cities, there some Jews who lived there. All these people came because they heard what Jesus was doing.
3:9,10
Jesus told his disciples to get a small boat ready, He was better able to preach from a boat, and it would avoid people pressing against Him. In 1986 a well-preserved first century fishing boat was found, it was 27 feet long, and 7.5 feet wide. Jesus had healed many, and people will always seek healing. The same is true even in our medical age.
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