Luke 9:14 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁴ For there were about five thousand men [there]. So, He said to His disciples, “Have these people recline [on the grass. See Matt. 14:19] in groups of about fifty each.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ For there were about 5,000 men. And [Jesus] said to His disciples, Have them [sit down] reclining in table groups (companies) of about fifty each.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ For they were about five thousand men. And he said unto his disciples, Make them sit down in companies, about fifty each.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ (They said this because about five thousand men were present.) Jesus said to his disciples, “Seat them in groups of about fifty.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Now there were about five thousand men. So he said to his disciples, "Have them recline to eat in groups of fifty."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Luke 9:14 Cross References

Mark 8:6

Then He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground; he took the seven loaves, and after giving thanks to God [for them], He divided the food and gave it to His disciples to set in front of them. They [in turn] set it in front of the crowd.

Luke 9:13

But He said to the apostles, “You men give them something to eat.” But they replied, “We have only five loaves of [barley] bread [See John 6:9] and two [probably smoked] fish, unless we go and buy [more] food for all these people.”

Luke 9:15

So, the disciples did this, and had all the people recline [on the grass in groups].

1 Corinthians 14:40

But everything [in the assembly] should be done properly and orderly.