'Down' in the Bible
For we heard him say that Jesus, this Nazarene, will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.
I have observed the oppression of My people in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to rescue them. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt.
Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin!” And saying this, he fell asleep.
Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah to them.
After they went down there, they prayed for them, so the Samaritans might receive the Holy Spirit.
For He had not yet come down on any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip: “Get up and go south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is the desert road.)
As they were traveling down the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, “Look, there’s water! What would keep me from being baptized?”
Then he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.
When the brothers found out, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
As Peter was traveling from place to place, he also came down to the saints who lived in Lydda.
Then Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down, prayed, and turning toward the body said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, saw Peter, and sat up.
He saw heaven opened and an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the earth.
Then Peter went down to the men and said, “Here I am, the one you’re looking for. What is the reason you’re here?”
While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came down on all those who heard the message.
“I was in the town of Joppa praying, and I saw, in a visionary state, an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came to me.
“As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came down on them, just as on us at the beginning.
In those days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
After Herod had searched and did not find him, he interrogated the guards and ordered their execution. Then Herod went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.
Being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they came down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
They continued their journey from Perga and reached Antioch in Pisidia. On the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.
When they had fulfilled all that had been written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and put Him in a tomb.
When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the form of men!”
Some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers: “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom prescribed by Moses, you cannot be saved!”
After these things I will returnand rebuild David’s fallen tent.I will rebuild its ruinsand set it up again,
Then, being sent off, they went down to Antioch, and after gathering the assembly, they delivered the letter.
On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate by the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer. We sat down and spoke to the women gathered there.
Then the jailer called for lights, rushed in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.
When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,
When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message and solemnly testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.
On landing at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church and went down to Antioch.
However, when the city clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said, “Men of Ephesus! What man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?
and a young man named Eutychus was sitting on a window sill and sank into a deep sleep as Paul kept on speaking. When he was overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.
But Paul went down, fell on him, embraced him, and said, “Don’t be alarmed, for his life is in him!”
After he said this, he knelt down and prayed with all of them.
When our days there were over, we left to continue our journey, while all of them, with their wives and children, escorted us out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach to pray,
While we were staying there many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
Taking along soldiers and centurions, he immediately ran down to them. Seeing the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
The next day, since he wanted to find out exactly why Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and instructed the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to convene. Then he brought Paul down and placed him before them. >
When the dispute became violent, the commander feared that Paul might be torn apart by them and ordered the troops to go down, rescue him from them, and bring him into the barracks.
So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. However, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.”
“The Jews,” he said, “have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the Sanhedrin tomorrow, as though they are going to hold a somewhat more careful inquiry about him.
Wanting to know the charge they were accusing him of, I brought him down before their Sanhedrin.
After five days Ananias the high priest came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus. These men presented their case against Paul to the governor.
Since Felix was accurately informed about the Way, he adjourned the hearing, saying, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case.”
“Therefore,” he said, “let the men of authority among you go down with me and accuse him, if there is any wrong in this man.”
When he had spent not more than eight or 10 days among them, he went down to Caesarea. The next day, seated at the judge’s bench, he commanded Paul to be brought in.
When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought many serious charges that they were not able to prove,
But not long afterward, a fierce wind called the “northeaster” rushed down from the island.
Some sailors tried to escape from the ship; they had let down the skiff into the sea, pretending that they were going to put out anchors from the bow.
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