Mark 6:39

James Moffatt - New Testament

Then he gave orders that they were to make all the people lie down in parties on the green grass;

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but let everything be done decorously and in order.

for God is a God not of disorder but of harmony. [Move 33b-36 to follow vs 40] As is the rule in all churches of the saints,

So he ordered the crowd to recline on the ground.

He said, "How many loaves have you got? Go and see." When they found out they told him, "Five, and two fish."

so they arranged themselves in groups of a hundred and of fifty;

(There were about five thousand men of them.) He said to his disciples, "Make them lie down in rows of about fifty."

Jesus said, "Get the people to lie down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot, so the men lay down, numbering about five thousand.