Mar 6:39 | RWP | e4.org | By companies ( συμποσια συμποσια ). Distribution expressed by repetition as in ( δυο δυο ) instead of using ανα or κατα . Literally our word symposium and originally a drinking party, Latin convivium , then 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 ( επ τω χλωρω χορτω ). Another Markan touch. It was passover time ( ) and the afternoon sun shone upon the orderly groups upon the green spring grass. See on . They may have been seated like companies at tables, open at one end.

‏ Mark 6:39

By companies ( συμποσια συμποσια ). Distribution expressed by repetition as in Mr 6:7 ( δυο δυο ) instead of using ανα or κατα. Literally our word symposium and originally a drinking party, Latin convivium, then 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 ( επ τω χλωρω χορτω ). 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.