'Down' in the Bible
For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."
When he saw one of them being hurt unfairly, Moses came to his defense and avenged the person who was mistreated by striking down the Egyptian.
I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.'
Philip went down to the main city of Samaria and began proclaiming the Christ to them.
These two went down and prayed for them so that they would receive the Holy Spirit.
Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." (This is a desert road.)
So he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.
But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall by lowering him in a basket.
When the brothers found out about this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.
Now as Peter was traveling around from place to place, he also came down to the saints who lived in Lydda.
But Peter sent them all outside, knelt down, and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up." Then she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
He saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down to earth by its four corners.
But get up, go down, and accompany them without hesitation, because I have sent them."
So Peter went down to the men and said, "Here I am, the person you're looking for. Why have you come?"
"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.
At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
After they had passed the first and second guards, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went outside and walked down one narrow street, when at once the angel left him.
When Herod had searched for him and did not find him, he questioned the guards and commanded that they be led away to execution. Then Herod went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.
On a day determined in advance, Herod put on his royal robes, sat down on the judgment seat, and made a speech to them.
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
So Barnabas and Saul, sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
Moving on from Perga, they arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.
When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.
So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!"
Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."
So when they were dismissed, they went down to Antioch, and after gathering the entire group together, they delivered the letter.
On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the side of the river, where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down and began to speak to the women who had assembled there.
Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell down trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.
and when he arrived at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church at Jerusalem and then went down to Antioch.
A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.
But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, put his arms around him, and said, "Do not be distressed, for he is still alive!"
When he had said these things, he knelt down with them all and prayed.
When our time was over, we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us outside of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying,
While we remained there for a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
The next day, because the commanding officer wanted to know the true reason Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and the whole council to assemble. He then brought Paul down and had him stand before them.
When the argument became so great the commanding officer feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, he ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.
So now you and the council request the commanding officer to bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine his case by conducting a more thorough inquiry. We are ready to kill him before he comes near this place."
He replied, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as if they were going to inquire more thoroughly about him.
Since I wanted to know what charge they were accusing him of, I brought him down to their council.
After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought formal charges against Paul to the governor.
Then Felix, who understood the facts concerning the Way more accurately, adjourned their hearing, saying, "When Lysias the commanding officer comes down, I will decide your case."
"So," he said, "let your leaders go down there with me, and if this man has done anything wrong, they may bring charges against him."
After Festus had stayed not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day he sat on the judgment seat and ordered Paul to be brought.
When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges that they were not able to prove.
Not long after this, a hurricane-force wind called the northeaster blew down from the island.
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