to sit.

Matthew 14:19
And He instructed the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He spoke a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples to the people.

Mark 6:39, 40
Then Jesus directed them to have the people sit in groups on the green grass. . . .

Luke 9:14-16
(There were about five thousand men.) He told His disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each." . . .

John 6:10
"Have the people sit down, " Jesus said. Now there was plenty of grass in that place, so the men sat down, about five thousand of them.