1. From a boat pulpit Jesus taught a large crowd using parables

Mark 4:1-2 (ESV)

^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.

^2  And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: