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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