Luke 9:14
For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
For they were about five thousand men,.... Beside women and children, Matthew 14:21,
And he said to his disciples, Make them to sit down by fifties in a company; and by hundreds also; some companies had a hundred apiece in them, and others fifty; and which was done partly, for the more easy numbering of them, and partly and chiefly for the more convenient distribution of food to them; See Gill on "Mark 6:39".
See Gill on "Mark 6:40".
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