John Gill, on John 6:10

“Then Jesus said: Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. The men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand.”

“Jesus said, make the men sit down,.... The Syriac version reads, "all the men"; and the Persic version, "all the people"; men, women, and children: Christ, without reproving his disciples for their unbelief, ordered them directly to place the people upon the ground, and seat them in rows by hundreds and by fifties, in a rank and company, as persons about to take a meal: now there was much grass in the place; at the bottom of the mountain; and it was green, as one of the evangelists observes, it being the spring of the year, and was very commodious to sit down upon: so the men sat down, in number about five thousand; besides women and children, Mat 14:21, so that there was but one loaf for more than a thousand persons.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.