Cross References

Mark 6:39

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Jesus directed them to make all the people take their seats on the green grass, in parties;

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Telling the crowd to sit down on the ground,

"How many loaves have you?" he asked; "Go, and see." When they had found out, they told him: "Five, and two fishes."

And they sat down in groups--in hundreds, and in fifties.

(For the men among them were about five thousand.) "Get them seated in companies," was his reply, "about fifty in each."

"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. It was a grassy spot; so the men, who numbered about five thousand, sat down,

For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace.) This custom prevails in all the Churches of Christ's People.

Let everything be done in a proper and orderly manner.