Mark 6:39-40
1Kgs 10:5; Esth 1:5-6; Matt 15:35; 1Cor 14:33, 1Cor 14:40 by hundreds It is generally supposed that they were so arranged as to be a hundred in rank, or depth, and fifty in front, or file; which would make the number just five thousand, and will reconcile this account with Luke's, who only speaks of their sitting down by fifties. Luke 9:14-15
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