Matthew 15:35 Cross References
Matthew 15:35
35: So Jesus told all the people to sit down on the ground.
Luke 9:14
- For there were about five thousand men there. "Just tell them to sit down on the ground in groups of about fifty each," Jesus replied.
- So the people all sat down.
- Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and asked God's blessing on the food. Breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread and fish to the disciples to give to the people.
Mark 6:39
- Then Jesus told the crowd to sit down in groups on the green grass.
- So they sat in groups of fifty or a hundred.
John 6:10
- "Tell everyone to sit down," Jesus ordered. So all of them--the men alone numbered five thousand--sat down on the grassy slopes.
Matthew 14:19
- Then he told the people to sit down on the grass. And he took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and asked God's blessing on the food. Breaking the loaves into pieces, he gave some of the bread and fish to each disciple, and the disciples gave them to the people.
- They all ate as much as they wanted, and they picked up twelve baskets of leftovers.
- About five thousand men had eaten from those five loaves, in addition to all the women and children!