Mark 6:39 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁹ Then he ordered them to get all the people to sit down in groups on the green grass.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ Then He commanded the people all to recline on the green grass by companies.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ And he commanded them that all should sit down by companies upon the green grass.

Common English Bible

³⁹ He directed the disciples to seat all the people in groups as though they were having a banquet on the green grass.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ And he instructed them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁹ And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

Mark 6:39 Cross References

1 Kings 10:5

the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his valets, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the Lord, it took her breath away.

Matthew 15:35

Then ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground,

Mark 6:38

And he said to them, “How many loaves have you? Go and see.” When they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”

Mark 6:40

So they sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties.

Luke 9:14

For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

John 6:10

Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” Now there was a great deal of grass in the place, so they sat down, about five thousand in all.

1 Corinthians 14:33

for God is a God not of disorder but of peace), as in all the churches of the saints.

1 Corinthians 14:40

but all things should be done decently and in order.