Matthew 15:35
And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
In Context
34And Jesus said to them: How many loaves have you? But they said: Seven, and a few little fishes.
Cross References
Mark 6:39And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
John 6:10Then Jesus said: Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. The men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 15:30-39
Four Thousand Men Fed. 29 And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. 30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: 31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel. 32 Then Jesus called his… Read the whole commentary →