And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
Christ's power overflows in cures without stint or measure; He sits not on a throne of judgment but on a mountain where all may reach Him freely. He settles Himself to this work as one waiting to be gracious, expecting patients like Abraham at his tent-door, ready to help any soul that comes.
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Commenting on Matthew 15:29-39
And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. Not regarding the smallness of the provisions, nor any further consulting with his disciples; but knowing his own power to increase this food, and determining to feed the multitude before he dismissed them, in an authoritative way ordered them to sit down upon the ground in rows, that they might be the better seen, and served.
And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. (k) Literally, "to lie down backwards", as rowers do in rowing, when they draw their oars to themselves.