11 Bible Verses about Sitting To Teach

"The scribes and Pharisees have taken Moses' seat.

When he saw the crowds of people he went up on the mountain. There he seated himself, and when his disciples had come up to him,

Jesus left that place and went along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, and went up on the hillside and sat down there.

That same day Jesus went out of his house and was sitting on the seashore.

And such great crowds gathered about him that he got into a boat and sat down in it, while all the people stood on the shore.

Then he began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around him so great that he got into a boat and sat in it, a little way from the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the water.

And he rolled up the roll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed upon him.

At that same time Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out to arrest me with swords and clubs, as though I were a robber? Day after day I have sat in the Temple preaching, and you never seized me.

And he sat down and called the Twelve in, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."

And he got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to push out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds of people from the boat.

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