For they were about five thousand men,.... Beside women and children, Mt 14:21,and he said to his disciples, make them to sit down by fifties in a company; and by hundreds also; some companies had a hundred apiece in them, and others fifty; and which was done partly, for the more easy numbering of them, and partly and chiefly for the more convenient distribution of food to them; See Gill on "Mr 6:39".
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Luke 9:14
Luke 9:14
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