Luke 9:14 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 9:14

(There were about five thousand men.) He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For they were about five thousand men. And he said unto his disciples, Make them sit down in companies, about fifty each.

KJV

For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

For they were about five thousand men,.... Beside women and children, Mat 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 Mar 6:39. See Gill on Mar 6:40.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The blessing of Christ will make a little go a great way. The little that the righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked, a dinner of herbs better than a stalled ox. Those whom Christ feeds he fills; to whom he gives, he gives enough; as there is in him enough for all, so there is enough for each.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἦσαν	ēsan	They were	G1510 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ὡσεὶ	hōsei	about	G5616 →
ἄνδρες	andres	men	G435 →
πεντακισχίλιοι.¶	pentakischilioi	five thousand.	G4000 →
Εἶπεν	Eipen	He said	G2036 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
μαθητὰς	mathētas	disciples	G3101 →
αὐτοῦ·	autou	of Him;	G846 →
κατακλίνατε	kataklinate	do make sit down	G2625 →
αὐτοὺς	autous	them	G846 →
κλισίας	klisias	groups	G2828 →
ὡσεὶ	hōsei	of about	G5616 →
ἀνὰ	ana	in	G303 →
πεντήκοντα.	pentēkonta	fifty.	G4004 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 14:40
But everything must be done in a proper and orderly manner.
leads to
- Colossians 2:5
  For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.
- Titus 1:5
  The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.
- 1 Corinthians 14:26–33
  What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the…
- Romans 13:13
  Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
- 1 Corinthians 11:34
  If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you come together it will not result in judgment. And when I come, I will give instructions about the remaining matters.
Through
Mark 8:6
And He instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then He took the seven loaves, gave thanks and broke them, and gave them to His disciples to set before the people. And…
leads to
- Colossians 3:17
  And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
- John 6:10–11
  “Have the people sit down,” Jesus said. Now there was plenty of grass in that place, so the men sat down, about five thousand of them.
- Matthew 14:18–19
  “Bring them here to Me,” Jesus said.