Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

 (ii) There was deterioration. It is in Judas above all that we see this. Jesus must have seen in him a man whom he could use for his purposes. But Judas, who might have become the hero, became the villain; he who might have become a saint became a name of shame. 