John Gill Commentary John 6:10

"Jesus said, Make the people sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand." — John 6:10 (ASV)

Jesus said, make the men sit down
The Syriac version reads, "all the men"; and the Persic version, "all the people"; men, women, and children: Christ, without reproving his disciples for their unbelief, ordered them directly to place the people upon the ground, and seat them in rows by hundreds and by fifties, in a rank and company, as persons about to take a meal:

now there was much grass in the place ;
at the bottom of the mountain; and it was green, as one of the evangelists observes, it being the spring of the year, and was very commodious to sit down upon:

so the men sat down, in number about five thousand ;
besides women and children, (Matthew 14:21) , so that there was but one loaf for more than a thousand persons.