John 6:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. There was much grass in the place - Perhaps newly mown grass, or hay, is meant, (so the Vulgate faenum), and this circumstance marks out more particularly that the passover was at hand. In Palestine the grass is ready for mowing in March; and this miracle seems to have been wrought only a few days before the commencement of that festival: see John 6:4.