Mark 6:40

Modern

So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

Traditional

And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

Literal

And they sat down groups by groups, by hundreds and by fifties.

Latin

Et discubuerunt in partes per centenos et quinquagenos.

Greek

English

So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

The disciples finish their mission (6:6–13, 30–34). Then the story of feeding the 5,000 follows (6:35–44; see also Matthew 14:13–21; Luke 9:10–17; John 6:1–15). The feeding of the 4,000 is different enough to show these were two separate events (see Mark 8:1–10).

Luke 9:14–15
(There were about five thousand men.) He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”