Mark 6:39 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁹ And he commanded them that all should sit down by companies upon 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

and the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

Matthew 15:35

And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;

Mark 6:38

And he saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.

Mark 6:40

And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

Luke 9:14

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

John 6:10

Jesus said, Make the people sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

1 Corinthians 14:33

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

1 Corinthians 14:40

But let all things be done decently and in order.