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King James Bible - John 6:10

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 6:10

Entonces Jes�s dijo: Haced recostar los hombres. Y había mucha hierba en aquel lugar; y se recostaron como n�mero de cinco mil varones.

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Clarke's Bible Commentary - John 6:10

Verse 10. There was much grass in the place.] Perhaps newly mown grass, or hay, is meant, (so the Vulgate faenum,) and this circumstance marks out more particularly that the passover was at hand. In Palestine the grass is ready for mowing in March; and this miracle seems to have been wrought only a few days before the commencement of that festival: see chap. vi. 4.

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John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 10. 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, ( Matthew 14:21), so that there was but one loaf for more than a thousand persons.

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 1-14 - John relates the miracle of feeding the multitude, for its reference to the following discourse. Observe the effect this miracle had upon the people. Even the common Jews expected the Messiah to come into the world, and to be a great Prophet. The Pharisees despised them as no knowing the law; but they knew most of Him who is the end of the law Yet men may acknowledge Christ as that Prophet, and still turn a dea ear to him.

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Greek Textus Receptus

ειπεν 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3S δε 1161 CONJ ο 3588 T-NSM ιησους 2424 N-NSM ποιησατε 4160 5657 V-AAM-2P τους 3588 T-APM ανθρωπους 444 N-APM αναπεσειν 377 5629 V-2AAN ην 2258 5713 V-IXI-3S δε 1161 CONJ χορτος 5528 N-NSM πολυς 4183 A-NSM εν 1722 PREP τω 3588 T-DSM τοπω 5117 N-DSM ανεπεσον 377 5627 V-2AAI-3P ουν 3767 CONJ οι 3588 T-NPM ανδρες 435 N-NPM τον 3588 T-ASM αριθμον 706 N-ASM ωσει 5616 ADV πεντακισχιλιοι 4000 A-NPM

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Vincent's NT Word Studies

10. Sit down (anapesein). Literally, recline.

Grass (cortov). Originally an enclosure. Thus Homer speaks of Peleus offering a sacrifice, aujlhv ejn cortw, in the enclosure of the court ("Iliad," 11, 774). Hence a feeding-place, and so grass, provender. The sense is merely that of our abstract pasture. Matthew and Mark mention the grass, Mark with the epithet green. Wyc., hay.