'Beside' in the Bible

One Sabbath He was walking along [with His disciples] through the grainfields, and as they went along, His disciples began picking the heads of grain.

When His own family heard this they went to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He is out of His mind.”

So He called them to Himself and spoke to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan?

Again Jesus began to teach beside the sea [of Galilee]. And a very large crowd gathered around Him, so He got into a boat [anchoring it a short distance out] on the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the shore.

And He taught them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said to them,