“Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. John 6 contains 71 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.