Mark 6:40. In ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties, This is the fullest account of the way they were placed, though all four Evangelists intimate that the crowd was arranged in an orderly manner. Some have thought there were 50 seats in breadth and 100 in length, thus making 5, 000 (Mark 6:44). Gerlach: ‘Two longer rows of 100, a shorter one of 50 persons. The fourth side remained, after the manner of the ancient's tables, empty and open.'

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