John 6:10

Jesus said to them: Make all the people recline. Now there was much grass in that place: and the people reclined, in number five thousand.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

9There is a lad here, who hath with him five cakes of barley, and two fishes; but what are these for all those people?

11And Jesus took the bread, and blessed, and distributed to them that reclined. And so also, with the fish; as much as they desired.

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Cross References

Matthew 14:18Jesus said to them: Bring them here to me.

Mark 6:39And he bid them make the people recline on the grass by companies.

Luke 9:14for they were about five thousand men. Jesus said to them: Make them recline by companies, fifty persons in a company.

Matthew Henry on John 6:2-15

The Five Thousand Fed. 1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. 2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased. 3 And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. 4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh. 5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? 6 And this he said to prove… Read the whole commentary →

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