Luke 9:14
Ver. 14. For they were about five thousand men,.... Beside women and children, Mt 14:21,
and he said to his disciples, make them to sit down by fifties in a company; and by hundreds also; some companies had a hundred apiece in them, and others fifty; and which was done partly, for the more easy numbering of them, and partly and chiefly for the more convenient distribution of food to them; See Gill on "Mr 6:39". See Gill on "Mr 6:40".