35And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
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For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company. …
And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass. …
And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-39)Here is, I. A general account of Christ’s cures, his curing by wholesale. The tokens of Christ’s power and goodness are neither scarce nor scanty; for there is in him an overflowing fulness. Now observe, 1. The place where these cures were wrought; it was near the sea of Galilee , a part of the country Christ was much conversant with. We read not of any thing he did in the coasts of Tyre and Sidon…
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