Luke 9:14

For they were about five thousand men ,.... Beside women and children, Matthew 14:21 ,

and he said to his disciples, make them to sit down by fifties in a company ; and by hundreds also; some companies had a hundred apiece in them, and others fifty; and which was done partly, for the more easy numbering of them, and partly and chiefly for the more convenient distribution of food to them; See Gill on Mark 6:39 . See Gill on Mark 6:40 .