to sit down on the grasse] That they may be fed and told the more orderly and easily. A grasse-table, and barleybread, with the Gospel, is good chear. looking up to heaven] To shew whence he had the power to do this miracle, and whither the hungry people ought to look for supply, Psalms 145:15. he blessed] He gave thanks to God for that provision, and prayed for a miraculous blessing upon it. and brake] As the master of the family, or chief person in the company used to do, that it might be distributed, Luke 24:35.