'Down' in the Bible

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

"Sir," the official said to him, "come down before my child dies."

While he was on his way down, his slaves met him and told him that his son was going to live.

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me."

So Jesus went on up the mountainside and sat down there with his disciples.

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the lake,

For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"

and they said, "Isn't this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."

Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father -- and I lay down my life for the sheep.

This is why the Father loves me -- because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father."

Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!"

Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? I tell you the solemn truth, the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times!

No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.

When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in the place called "The Stone Pavement" (Gabbatha in Aramaic).

Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims' legs broken and the bodies taken down.

He bent down and saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, but he did not go in.

But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she bent down and looked into the tomb.

There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, I suppose the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.