John Trapp on Matthew 15:35

Verse 35. To sit down on the ground] He intended them not only a running-banquet, a slightcome-off, but a full feast, a good meal, and therefore bad them sit down, and feed their fill. It was indeed on the bare ground that they sate: but so doe the greatest Turk. Hist. fol. 713. Lords in Turky at this day: they sit at meat, with their legs gathered under them, flat upon the ground; and their chear, when they feast most sumptuously, is only rice and mutton, with fair water out of the river.