Luke 9:14 - English Majority Text Version 2009

¹⁴ For there were about five thousand men. And He said to His disciples, "Make them recline in groups of fifty."

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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

So He commanded the crowd to recline on the ground. And He took the seven loaves, and having given thanks, He broke [them ]and was giving [them] to His disciples, so that they might set [them] before [the people]; and they set them before the crowd.

Luke 9:13

But He said to them, "You give them [something] to eat."And they said, "We have no more than five loaves of bread and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people."

Luke 9:15

And they did so, and made them all recline.

1 Corinthians 14:40

Let all things be done properly and according to order.