John 6:10
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.
Cross-references
Matthew 14:18 records Jesus' command 'Bring them here to me' — the same instruction that precedes the miracle here.
Matthew 14:19 describes Jesus taking, blessing, and breaking the loaves — the same actions that follow the seating here.
Matthew 15:35 has Jesus command the crowd to sit down for the feeding of the four thousand — parallel to this seating.
Mark 6:39-41 describes Jesus commanding the crowd to sit in groups, then blessing and breaking — a parallel account of the same feeding miracle.
Luke 9:14-16 recounts the same feeding miracle with identical detail — Jesus has the crowd sit down in groups before blessing.
Matthew 14:21 gives the count of 5,000 men plus women and children — a parallel detail from the same feeding event.
In Mark 8:6, Jesus again commands the crowd to sit down for a feeding miracle — a similar action in a different event (feeding of 4,000).