Luke 9:14 meaning and explanation

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

Luke 9:14, Berean Standard Bible

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Luke has just told us the crowd is large, about five thousand men, and the disciples want to send them away to find food. Jesus instead orders them seated in groups of about fifty.

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