Mark 6:39

by companies Literally, drinking parties. The word alludes to an orderly social grouping, catervatim. The words are repeated by a Hebraism in the original, like the "two and two" of Mark 6:7.

upon the green grass St Mark alone mentions the green grass, "still fresh in the spring of the year, before it had faded away in the summer sun." It was the season of the Passover, corresponding to our March or April, hence there was "much grass in the place;" comp. John 6:10.