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Like Garden Beds
Commentators explain that the Greek word for "ranks" literally means "garden beds." The crowd, arranged in orderly groups with their colorful clothing on the green grass, would have looked like vibrant flower beds. This vivid detail, likely from Peter's eyewitness memory, paints a beautiful picture of Christ's orderly care.
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Albert Barnes
On Mark 6:40
18th Century
Theologian
In ranks. Literally, in the form of square beds in a garden. By square, regularly formed companies.
By hundreds, and by fifties…
AT Robertson
On Mark 6:40
They sat down in ranks (ανεπεσαν πρασια πρασια). They half-way reclined (ανακλιθηνα, verse 39). Fell up here (we have to say fell …
Charles Ellicott
On Mark 6:40
19th Century
Bishop
In ranks.—The primary meaning of the Greek word is “a bed of flowers or herbs,” and it applies here effectively, with the same dis…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Mark 6:40
At Jesus’ direction the disciples arranged the crowd into groups of hundreds and fifties in order to facilitate the distribution of the food. This …
John Gill
On Mark 6:40
17th Century
Pastor
And they sat down in ranks
Or "beds": in such form as little beds are placed in a garden, or as rows of vines in a v…
Matthew Henry
On Mark 6:30–44
17th Century
Minister
Ministers should do or teach only what they are willing to have told to their Lord. Christ notices the fears of some and the labors of others among…