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.
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Gill's Exposition
Jesus said, make the men sit down,.... The Syriac version reads, "all the men"; and the Persic version, "all the people"; men, women, and children: Christ, without reproving his disciples for their…
Adam Clarke
There was much grass in the place - Perhaps newly mown grass, or hay, is meant, (so the Vulgate faenum), and this circumstance marks out more particularly that the passover was at hand. In Palestine…
We have here an account of Christ's feeding five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes, which miracle is in this respect remarkable, that it is the only passage of the actions of Christ's life…
Cambridge Bible
much grass As we might expect early in April (Joh 6:6). S. Mark (Mar 6:39-40) mentions how they reclined in parterres, by hundreds and by fifties, on the green grass. This arrangement would make it…
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