35 Bible Verses about Sitting

Jacob's Well was there: and accordingly Jesus, tired out with His journey, sat down by the well to rest. It was about six o'clock in the evening.

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane. And He said to the disciples, "Sit down here, whilst I go yonder and there pray."

But which of you who has a servant ploughing, or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the farm, 'Come at once and take your place at table,'

and He told all the people to sit down on the grass. Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and after looking up to heaven and blessing them, He broke up the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples distributed them to the people.

And you must not be worshippers of idols, as some of them were. For it is written, "The People sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance."

Seeing the multitude of people, Jesus went up the Hill. There He seated Himself, and when His disciples came to Him, He proceeded to teach them, and said:

when a vast multitude of people crowded round Him. He therefore went on board a boat and sat there, while all the people stood on the shore.

Then sitting down He called the Twelve, and said to them, "If any one wishes to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

On the third day they found Him in the Temple sitting among the Rabbis, both listening to them and asking them questions,

She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the Lord's feet and listened to His teaching.

At break of day however He returned to the Temple, and there the people came to Him in crowds. He seated Himself;

"Allow us," they replied, "to sit one at your right hand and the other at your left hand, in your glory."

"I am He," replied Jesus. "But I tell you that, later on, you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Omnipotence, and coming on the clouds of the sky."

Why, David himself says in the Book of Psalms, "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand

He brightly reflects God's glory and is the exact representation of His being, and upholds the universe by His all-powerful word. After securing man's purification from sin He took His seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

this Priest, on the contrary, after offering for sins a single sacrifice of perpetual efficacy, took His seat at God's right hand,

simply fixing our gaze upon Jesus, our Prince Leader in the faith, who will also award us the prize. He, for the sake of the joy which lay before Him, patiently endured the cross, looking with contempt upon its shame, and afterwards seated Himself-- where He still sits--at the right hand of the throne of God.

"'To him who overcomes I will give the privilege of sitting down with Me on My throne, as I also have overcome and have 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 until the Ages of the Ages, and they cast their wreaths down in front of the throne,

In loud voices they were exclaiming, "It is to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb, that we owe our salvation!"

"When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then will He sit upon His glorious throne,

While he was sitting on the tribunal a message came to him from his wife. "Have nothing to do with that innocent man," she said, "for during the night I have suffered terribly in a dream through him."

so that you shall eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom, and sit on thrones as judges over the twelve tribes of Israel.

"Before long," exclaimed Paul, "God will strike you, you white-washed wall! Are you sitting there to judge me in accordance with the Law, and do you yourself actually break the Law by ordering me to be struck?"

But from this time forward the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of God's omnipotence."

when He displayed it in Christ by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His own right hand in the heavenly realms,

raised us with Him from the dead, and enthroned us with Him in the heavenly realms as being in Christ Jesus,