Sitting was a normal teaching position in the time of the New Testament (Matthew 5:1; Matthew 15:29; Mark 3:32, Mark 3:34; Mark 9:35; Mark 13:3; Luke 4:20).1 A crowd would gather around the seated person.
Sitting was a normal teaching position in the time of the New Testament (Matthew 5:1; Matthew 15:29; Mark 3:32, Mark 3:34; Mark 9:35; Mark 13:3; Luke 4:20).1 A crowd would gather around the seated person.
1 Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.