14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
14 (About five thousand men were there.) But he said to his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each."
14 For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each."
14 (There were more than five thousand people in the crowd.)
14 For there were about five thousand men. Then He said to His disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of fifty."
14 For there were about 5,000 men there. Jesus replied, "Tell them to sit down in groups of about fifty each."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 9:14
Commentary on Luke 9:10-17
(Read Luke 9:10-17)
The people followed Jesus, and though they came unseasonably, yet he gave them what they came for. He spake unto them of the kingdom of God. He healed those who had need of healing. And with five loaves of bread and two fishes, Christ fed five thousand men. He will not see those that fear him, and serve him faithfully, want any good thing. When we receive creature-comforts, we must acknowledge that we receive them from God, and that we are unworthy to receive them; that we owe them all, and all the comfort we have in them, to the mediation of Christ, by whom the curse is taken away. The blessing of Christ will make a little go a great way. He fills every hungry soul, abundantly satisfies it with the goodness of his house. Here were fragments taken up: in our Father's house there is bread enough, and to spare. We are not straitened, nor stinted in Christ.