Mark 6:39
Good News Translation
Jesus then told his disciples to make all the people divide into groups and sit down on the green grass.

New Revised Standard Version
Then he ordered them to get all the people to sit down in groups on the green grass.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus told his disciples to tell the people to sit down on the green grass.

New American Bible
So he gave orders to have them sit down in groups on the green grass.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

1 Kings 10:5 And the meat of his table, and the apartments of his servants, and the order of his ministers, and their apparel, and the cupbearers, and the holocausts, which he offered in the house of the Lord, she had no longer any spirit in her;

Esther 1:5,6 And when the days of the feast were expired, he invited all the people that were found in Susan, from the greatest to the least: and commanded a feast to be made seven days in the court of the garden, and of the wood, which was planted by the care and the hand of the king. . . .

Matthew 15:35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground.

1 Corinthians 14:33,40 For God is not the God of dissension, but of peace: as also I teach in all the churches of the saints. . . .

Context
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
38And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes. 39And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass. 40And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.…
Cross References
Mark 6:38
And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes.

Mark 6:40
And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.

Luke 9:14
Now there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples: Make them sit down by fifties in a company.

John 6:10
Then Jesus said: Make the men sit down. Now, there was much grass in the place. The men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand.

Mark 6:38
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