Mark 6:40

And they sat down in ranks,.... Or "beds": in such form as little beds are placed in a garden, or as rows of vines in a vineyard, in which form the scholars of the wise men sat in their schools: it is…

See this narrative explained in the notes at Mat 14:13-21. Mar 6:32 By ship - By a boat or a small vessel. Privately - Without making their plan known. They intended to go privately. It appears,…

By hundreds, and by fifties - "That is," says Mr. Wesley, "fifty in a rank, and a hundred in file. So, a hundred multiplied by fifty, made just five thousand." But if they sat fifty deep, how could…

In there verses, we have,

I. The return to Christ of the apostles whom he had sent forth (Mar 6:7), to preach, and work miracles. They had dispersed themselves into several quarters of the country for…

in ranks Literally, they reclined in parterres (areolatim). "As they sat in these orderly groups upon the grass, the gay red and blue and yellow colours of the clothing, which the poorest Orientals…