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Selected Verse: Mark 6:39 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Mr 6:39 |
King James |
And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass--or "green hay"; the rank grass of those bushy wastes. For, as John (Joh 6:10) notes, "there was much grass in the place." |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
By companies (συμπόσια συμπόσια)
Peculiar to Mark. The Jewish dining-room was arranged like the Roman: three tables forming three sides of a square, and with divans or couches following the outside line of the tables. The open end of the square admitted the servants who waited at table. This explains the arrangement of the multitude here described by Mark. The people sat down, literally, in table-companies, arranged like guests at table; some companies of a hundred and some of fifty, in squares or oblongs open at one end, so that the disciples could pass along the inside and distribute the loaves
Green
Mark only. |
10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.