Bible verse
Then Jesus directed them to have the people sit in groups on the green grass.
Mark 6:39 · BSB
The verses around it, from Mark 6.
35 By now the hour was already late. So the disciples came to Jesus and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late.
36 Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”
37 But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him, “Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?”
38 “Go and see how many loaves you have,” He told them. And after checking, they said, “Five—and two fish.”
39 Then Jesus directed them to have the people sit in groups on the green grass.
40 So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.
41 Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, Jesus spoke a blessing and broke the loaves. Then He gave them to His disciples to set before the people. And He divided the two fish among them all.
42 They all ate and were satisfied,
43 and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish.
KJV
And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
ASV
And he commanded them that all should sit down by companies upon the green grass.
ERV
And he commanded them that all should sit down by companies upon the green grass.
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