'Down' in the Bible

“Sir,” the official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies!”

While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive.

because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had].

“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

So Jesus went up a mountain and sat down there with His disciples.

Then Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. The men numbered about 5,000.

When evening came, His disciples went down to the sea,

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 will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

They were saying, “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 comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of 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 manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

At dawn He went to the temple complex again, and all the people were coming to Him. He sat down and began to teach them.

They asked this to trap Him, in order that they might have evidence to accuse Him.Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with His finger.

Then He stooped down again and continued writing on the ground.

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

as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep.

This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from My Father.”

“Lord,” Peter asked, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You!”

Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for Me? I assure you: A rooster will not crow until you have denied Me three times.

No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.

When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge’s bench in a place called the Stone Pavement (but in Hebrew Gabbatha).

Stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying there, yet he did not go in.

This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.

For we heard him say that Jesus, this Nazarene, will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

and Jacob went down to Egypt. He and our ancestors died there,

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!”

After they spoke the message in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

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.

So, bypassing Mysia, they came down to Troas.

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.

But the righteousness that comes from faith speaks like this: Do not say in your heart, “Who will go up to heaven?” that is, to bring Christ down

or, “Who will go down into the abyss?” that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

Lord, they have killed Your prophetsand torn down Your altars.I am the only one left,and they are trying to take my life!

But what was God’s reply to him? I have left 7,000 men for Myself who have not bowed down to Baal.

One who eats must not look down on one who does not eat, and one who does not eat must not criticize one who does, because God has accepted him.

But you, why do you criticize your brother? Or you, why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before the tribunal of God.

Do not tear down God’s work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to cause stumbling by what he eats.

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play.

Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look down on the church of God and embarrass those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you for this!

The secrets of his heart will be revealed, and as a result he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is really among you.”

Therefore, no one should look down on him. Send him on his way in peace so he can come to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers.

He has also sealed us and given us the Spirit as a down payment in our hearts.

we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed.

And the One who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

For if I boast some more about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I am not ashamed.

so I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.

This is why I am writing these things while absent, that when I am there I will not use severity, in keeping with the authority the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

If I rebuild the system I tore down, I show myself to be a lawbreaker.