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King James Bible - Mark 6:39

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 6:39

Y les mand� que hiciesen recostar a todos por partidas sobre la hierba verde.

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John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 39. And he commanded them to make all sit down , etc..] Christ ordered his disciples, without any more ado, to cause the whole multitude, men, women, and children, to sit, or lie down, as they used to do at table when about to take a meal: and as they had no table before them, nor beds, or couches to sit, or lie down upon, he directed them to place them by companies upon the green grass ; that there might be some order among them, as at a meal; and that their number might be the more easily known; and that all of them might more plainly see the miracle that was to be wrought: and the provision be more orderly distributed to them.

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 30-44 - Let not ministers do any thing or teach any thing, but what they ar willing should be told to their Lord. Christ notices the frights of some, and the toils of others of his disciples, and provides rest for those that are tired, and refuge for those that are terrified. The people sought the spiritual food of Christ's word, and then he too care that they should not want bodily food. If Christ and his disciple put up with mean things, surely we may. And this miracle shows tha Christ came into the world, not only to restore, but to preserve an nourish spiritual life; in him there is enough for all that come. Non are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves. Though Christ had bread enough at command, he teaches u not to waste any of God's bounties, remembering how many are in want We may, some time, need the fragments that we now throw away.

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Greek Textus Receptus

και 2532 CONJ επεταξεν 2004 5656 V-AAI-3S αυτοις 846 P-DPM ανακλιναι 347 5658 V-AAN παντας 3956 A-APM συμποσια 4849 N-APN συμποσια 4849 N-APN επι 1909 PREP τω 3588 T-DSM χλωρω 5515 A-DSM χορτω 5528 N-DSM

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Vincent's NT Word Studies

39. By companies (sumposia sumposia). Peculiar to Mark. The Jewish dining-room was arranged like the Roman: three tables forming three sides of a square, and with divans or couches following the outside line of the tables. The open end of the square admitted the servants who waited at table. This explains the arrangement of the multitude here described by Mark. The people sat down, literally, in table-companies, arranged like guests at table; some companies of a hundred and some of fifty, in squares or oblongs open at one end, so that the disciples could pass along the inside and distribute the loaves.

Green. Mark only.

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Robertson's NT Word Studies

6:39 {By companies} (sumposia sumposia). Distribution expressed by repetition as in #Mr 6:7 (duo duo) instead of using ana or kata. Literally our word _symposium_ and originally a drinking party, Latin _convivium_, qen the party of guests of any kind without the notion of drinking. So in Plutarch and the LXX (especially I Macca.). {Upon the green grass} (epi twi clwrwi cortwi). Another Markan touch. It was passover time (#Joh 6:4) and the afternoon sun shone upon the orderly groups upon the green spring grass. See on �Mt 14:15. They may have been seated like companies at tables, open at one end.