35 Bible Verses about Sitting
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Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, "Sit here while I go over there and pray."
"Will any one of you, who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep, say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down to eat'?
Then he commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave them to the multitudes.
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play."
Seeing the crowds, he went up on a mountain, and when he sat down his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
And great crowds gathered around him, so that he got into a boat and sat there; and the whole crowd stood on the shore.
And he sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, "If anyone desires to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."
After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.
And they said to him, "Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and the other at your left, in your glory."
Jesus said to him, "It is as you said. But I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."
For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,
He is the radiance of his glory and the exact representation of his being, and upholds all things by the word of his power. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
But when he had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
To him who overcomes, I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.
the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever; they cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."
"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered greatly today in a dream because of him."
so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Then Paul said to him, "God shall strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"
But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."
which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
and raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Topics on Sitting
God Sitting In Glory
Revelation 5:13And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!"
People Sitting Down
John 6:10Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was much grass in the place; so the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
Sitting At The Feet
Luke 8:35Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
Sitting In Dejection
Matthew 4:16the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned."
Sitting In Fellowship
1 Corinthians 10:7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play."
Sitting In Security
Ephesians 2:6and raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Sitting In The Gateway
Acts 3:2And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful to beg alms of those who entered the temple.