SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:14
Y eran como cinco mil hombres. Entonces dijo a sus discípulos: Hacedlos sentar en grupos, de cincuenta en cincuenta.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. For they were about five thousand men , etc.] Beside women and children, ( Matthew 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 Mark 6:39-40) Ver. 15. And they did so, and made them all sit down .] The disciples did not dispute the case any longer with Christ, but obeyed his orders, and ranged the multitude in companies, a hundred in one, and fifty in another; and ordered them to sit down in their distinct companies and ranks upon the green grass. The Arabic and Ethiopic versions read, and they all sat down; and so it is read in some copies of the Vulgate Latin version.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 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 brea and two fishes, Christ fed five thousand men. He will not see thos that fear him, and serve him faithfully, want any good thing. When we receive creature-comforts, we must acknowledge that we receive the from God, and that we are unworthy to receive them; that we owe the 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 little go a great way. He fills every hungry soul, abundantly satisfie it with the goodness of his house. Here were fragments taken up: in ou Father's house there is bread enough, and to spare. We are no straitened, nor stinted in Christ.
Greek Textus Receptus
ησαν 2258 5713 V-IXI-3P γαρ 1063 CONJ ωσει 5616 ADV ανδρες 435 N-NPM πεντακισχιλιοι 4000 A-NPM ειπεν 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3S δε 1161 CONJ προς 4314 PREP τους 3588 T-APM μαθητας 3101 N-APM αυτου 846 P-GSM κατακλινατε 2625 5657 V-AAM-2P αυτους 846 P-APM κλισιας 2828 N-APF ανα 303 PREP πεντηκοντα 4004 A-NUI
Vincent's NT Word Studies
14. In a company (klisiav). The plural, in companies. Lit., table-companies. The word is also used in classical Greek of a couch for reclining at table. Only here in New Testament. See on Mark vi. 39.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
9:14 {About} (hwsei). Luke as #Mt 14:21 adds this word to the definite statement of #Mr 6:44 that there were 5,000 men, a hundred companies of fifty each. {Sit down} (kataklinate). First aorist active imperative. Recline, lie down. Only in Luke in the N.T. See also verse #15. {In companies} (klisias). Cognate accusative after {kataklinate}. Only here in the N.T. A row of persons reclining at meals (table company). {About fifty each} (hwsei ana pentekonta). Distributive use of ana and approximate number again (hwsei).
