Mark 6:40 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁰And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

Mark 6:40 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 9:14-15
For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company. …

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Jesus, the Christ

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 30-44)

In there verses, we have, I. The return to Christ of the apostles whom he had sent forth (Mark 6:7), to preach, and work miracles. They had dispersed themselves into several quarters of the country for some time, but when they had made good their several appointments, by consent they gathered themselves together, to compare notes, and came to Jesus, the centre of their unity, to give him an accoun…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 40)

40. And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties--Doubtless this was to show at a glance the number fed, and to enable all to witness in an orderly manner this glorious miracle.