Luke 9:14

For there were about five thousand men. And He said to His disciples, “Make them recline in groups of fifty.”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.

In Context

13But He said to them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said, “We have no more than five loaves of bread and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

15And they did so, and made them all recline.

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Cross References

Mark 6:39Then He gave orders for them all to recline in groups on the green grass.

Mark 8:6So He commanded the crowd to recline on the ground. And He took the seven loaves, and having given thanks, He broke them and was giving them to His disciples, so that they might set them before the people; and they set them before the crowd.

Matthew Henry on Luke 9:11-18

The Multitude Miraculously Fed. 10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. 11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing. 12 And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and… Read the whole commentary →

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