'Down' in the Bible

He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.

He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,

Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.

He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch."

Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net."

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord."

Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before Jesus.

He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

"Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you."

But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torment me!"

The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet, and begged him to come into his house,

When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each."

They did so, and made them all sit down.

It happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met him.

While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?"

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'

If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"

They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of God.

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

He said, 'A hundred batos of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'

But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'

In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."

He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.

for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'

"He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.

"As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down."

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

"So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles.

He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and he knelt down and prayed,

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.

He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.

Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?

It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.

After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!"

for an angel went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had.

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.

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

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."

They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

This is the bread which came down out of heaven -- not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.

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

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?

Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you have denied me three times.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."

Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'

He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert."

He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

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

When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

It happened, as Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

Peter put them all out, and kneeled down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them."

Peter went down to the men, and said, "Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?"

When it happened that Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.

"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.

Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

When Herod had sought for him, and didn't find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.

So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.

But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.