35 Bible Verses about Sitting
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And Jacob's well was there. Now Jesus was tired with his journey, and sat down at the well: and it was about the sixth hour of the day,
Then went Jesus with them to a place called Gethsemane, and saith to the disciples, Sit here, while I go there and pray:
But which of you having a servant plowing, or feeding cattle, will say to him, as soon as he comes in from the field, Come hither and sit down at table?
And having ordered the multitudes to sit down upon the grass, and taken the five loaves and the two fishes, He looked up to heaven and blessed them; and He brake the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples to the people: and they did all eat, and were satisfied;
And be ye not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."
And seeing the multitudes He went up to a mountain, and when He was set down, His disciples came to Him, and He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
and many people were gathered together to bear Him, so that He went into a ship and sat down, and all the multitude stood upon the shore; and He spake to them many things in parables,
So He sat down and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any one would be first, let him be last of all, and servant of all.
and after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, attending to them and asking them questions.
And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the feet of Jesus, attending to his discourse.
and returned early in the morning into the temple, and all the people came to Him: and He sat down, and taught them.
they said unto Him, Grant that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy glory.
Jesus saith unto him, It is as thou hast said: and I tell you, hereafter ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.
when David himself saith in the book of Psalms, "The Lord said unto my Lord,
Who being the refulgence of his glory and the imprest image of his person, and sustaining all things by his powerful word, having by Himself performed the purging away of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high.
but He having offered one sacrifice for sins, is for ever sat down at the right hand of God;
looking unto Jesus the leader and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
To him that overcometh I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I also have overcome, and am set down with my Father on his throne.
who liveth for ever and ever, the four and twenty elders fall down before Him that sitteth on the throne, and worship Him that liveth for ever and ever,
and crying with a loud voice, saying, Salvation be ascribed to our God, who sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb.
So when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon his glorious throne:
(And while he was sitting on the tribunal, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that righteous man: for I have suffered much in a dream to day on his account.)
that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Then said Paul to him, "God will smite thee, thou whited wall: dost thou sit to judge me according to the law, and contrary to the law commandest me to be smitten?"
But hereafter shall the Son of man be seated on the right hand of the power of God.
which He exerted in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at his own right hand in heavenly places,
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 are in them, saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever.
People Sitting Down
John 6:10And Jesus said, Make the men 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 8:35and the people went out to see what was done, and came to Jesus; and found the man, from whom the demons were gone out, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind:
Sitting In Dejection
Matthew 4:16about Jordan, Galilee of the gentiles, the people that sat in darkness, saw a great light, and to them, who sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up."
Sitting In Fellowship
1 Corinthians 10:7And be ye not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."
Sitting In The Gateway
Acts 3:2And a certain man who had been lame from his birth was carried along; whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of those that were going into the temple: