'Down' in the Bible

He kept proclaiming, "The one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to bend down and untie his sandal straps.

Since they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. They dug through it and let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, "You are the Son of God!"

The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem kept repeating, "He has Beelzebul," and, "He drives out demons by the ruler of demons."

Then he got up, rebuked the wind, and told the sea, "Calm down! Be still!" Then the wind stopped blowing, and there was a great calm.

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell down in front of him,

So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down a steep slope into the sea and drowned there.

So the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward fearfully, fell down trembling in front of him, and told him the whole truth.

Then he ordered them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.

So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

You are destroying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other things like that."

In fact, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell down at his feet.

So he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and gave thanks. He broke them in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples to distribute. So they served them to the crowd.

On their way down the mountain, Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

So he sat down, called the Twelve, and told them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

As Jesus was setting out again, a man ran up to him, knelt down in front of him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

Jesus told him, "Go. Your faith has made you well." At once the man could see again, and he began to follow Jesus down the road.

"Do you see these large buildings?" Jesus responded. "Not one stone here will be left on another that will not be torn down."

The one who's on his housetop must not come down and go into his house to take anything out of it,

Then they came to a place called Gethsemane, and he told his disciples, "Sit down here while I pray."

While Peter was down in the courtyard, one of the high priest's servant girls came by.

Just then a rooster crowed a second time. Peter remembered that Jesus told him, "Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." Then he broke down and cried.

save yourself and come down from the cross!"

Let the Messiah, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, since seeing is believing!" Even the men who were crucified with him kept insulting him.

So someone ran and soaked a sponge in some sour wine. Then he put it on a stick and offered Jesus a drink, saying, "Wait! Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down!"

Joseph bought some linen cloth, took the body down, wrapped it in the cloth, laid it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

So the Lord Jesus, after talking with his disciples, was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.