Matthew 15:35
And he commanded the multitudes to recline on the ground.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
In Context
34Jesus said to them, How many loaves have ye? They said to him, Seven, and a few little fishes.
Cross References
Mark 6:39And he bid them make the people recline on the grass by companies.
John 6:10Jesus said to them: Make all the people recline. Now there was much grass in that place: and the people reclined, in number 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 →