And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
Ver. 10. Make the men sit down] And they did so, though they saw no sense for it. This kind of blind obedience is very acceptable: Clausis oculis Deum sequi debemus ducem. We must wink and put ourselves into God's hand to be led whither he pleaseth.