ἐκάθητο. The usual position of a Jewish teacher.

παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν. At the N. end of the Lake of Gennesaret there are small creeks or inlets ‘where the ship could ride in safety only a few feet from the shore, and where the multitudes seated on both sides and before the boat could listen without distraction or fatigue. As if on purpose to furnish seats, the shore on both sides of these narrow inlets is piled up with smooth boulders of basalt.’ Thomson, Land and Book, p. 356.

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Old Testament