Matthew 15:35
Then he commanded the multitude to sit downe on the ground,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
In Context
34And Iesus said vnto them, How many loaues haue ye? And they said, Seuen, and a few litle fishes.
Cross References
Mark 6:39So he commanded them to make them all sit downe by companies vpon the greene grasse.
John 6:10And Iesus saide, Make ye people sit downe. (Nowe there was much grasse in that place.) Then the men sate downe in nomber, about fiue thousande.
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 →