John Gill's Exposition on John 6:10

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Jesus said, make the men sit down, etc.] The Syriac version reads, “all the men”; and the Persic version, “all the people”; men, women, and children: Christ, without reproving his disciples for their unbelief, ordered them directly to place the people upon the ground, and seat them in rows by hundreds and by fifties, in a rank and company, as persons about to take a meal: now there was much grass in the place; at the bottom of the mountain; and it was green, as one of the evangelists observes, it being the spring of the year, and was very commodious to sit down upon: so the men sat down, in number about five thousand; besides women and children, (<401421>Matthew 14:21), so that there was but one loaf for more than a thousand persons.

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