'Down' in the Bible

When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and died. And great fear seized everyone who heard about it.

She instantly fell down at Peter's feet and died. When the young men came in, they found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her next to her husband.

For we have heard him say that this Jesus from Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."

So Jacob went down to Egypt. Then he and our ancestors died.

I have surely seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, I've heard their groans, and I've come down to rescue them. Now come, I'll send you to Egypt.'

Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" After he had said this, he died.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began to preach the Messiah to the people.

They went down and prayed for them to receive the Holy Spirit.

So he ordered the chariot to stop, and Philip and the eunuch both went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

but his disciples took him one night and let him down through the city wall by lowering him in a basket.

When the brothers found out about the plot, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

Peter made them all go outside. After kneeling down, he prayed, turned to the body, and said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

and saw heaven open and something like a large linen sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the ground.

When Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him, bowed down at his feet, and began to worship him.

"I was in the town of Joppa praying when in a trance I saw a vision: Something like a large linen sheet descended down from heaven, lowered by its four corners, and it came right down to me.

When they heard this, they calmed down, and praised God by saying, "So God has given repentance that leads to life even to gentiles."

At that time some prophets from Jerusalem came down to Antioch.

Herod searched for him but didn't find him, so he questioned the guards and ordered them to be executed. Then he left Judea, went down to Caesarea, and stayed there for a while.

Therefore, at a set time Herod put on his royal robes, sat down on the royal seat, and made a speech to them.

Immediately the angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

They left Perga and arrived in Antioch in Pisidia. On the Sabbath day, they went into the synagogue and sat down.

When they had finished doing everything that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and placed him in a tomb.

Now in Lystra there was a man sitting down who couldn't use his feet. He had been crippled from birth and had never walked.

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have become like men and have come down to us!"

They spoke the word in Perga and went down to Attalia.

Then some men came down from Judea and started to teach the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the Law of Moses, you can't be saved."

so they bypassed Mysia and went down to Troas.

On the Sabbath day, we went out the city gate and walked along the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer. We sat down and began talking to the women who had gathered there.

When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials and shouted, "These fellows who have turned the world upside down have come here, too,

When the city recorder had quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, who in the world doesn't know that this city of Ephesus is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell down from heaven?

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in a window, began to sink off into a deep sleep as Paul kept speaking longer and longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

But Paul went down, bent over him, took him into his arms, and said, "Stop being alarmed, because he's still alive."

When Paul had said this, he knelt down and prayed with all of them.

Immediately the tribune took some soldiers and officers and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

The tribune gave him permission, and Paul, standing on the steps, motioned for the people to be silent. When everyone had quieted down, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language:

The next day, since the tribune wanted to find out exactly what Paul was being accused of by the Jews, he released him and ordered the high priests and the entire Council to meet. Then he brought Paul down and had him stand before them.

The quarrel was becoming violent, and the tribune was afraid that they would tear Paul to pieces. So he ordered the soldiers to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

Now then, you and the Council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you on the pretext that you want to look into his case more carefully, but before he arrives we'll be ready to kill him."

He answered, "The Jewish leaders have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the Council tomorrow as though they were going to examine his case more carefully.

"Therefore," he said, "have your authorities come down with me and present their charges against him there, if there is anything wrong with the man."

Festus stayed with them no more than eight or ten days and then went down to Caesarea. The next day, he sat on the judge's seat and ordered Paul brought in.

When Paul arrived, the Jewish leaders who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him and began bringing a number of serious charges against him that they couldn't prove.

So they came here with me, and the next day without any delay I sat down in the judge's seat and ordered the man to be brought in.

I would even punish them frequently in every synagogue and try to make them blaspheme. Raging furiously against them, I would hunt them down even in distant cities.

But it was not long before a violent wind (called a northeaster) swept down from the island.