38 (A)Then he said unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and look. And when they knew it, they said, Five, and two fishes.

39 So he commanded them to make them all sit down by [a]companies upon the green grass.

40 Then they sat down by [b]rows, by hundreds, and by fifties.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 6:39 Word for word, by banquets, after the manner of the Hebrews, who have no distributives, as Mark 6:7. Now he calleth the rows of the sitters, banquets.
  2. Mark 6:40 The word signifieth the beds in a garden, and it is word for word, by beds and beds, meaning thereby that they sat down in rows one by another, as beds in a garden.

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