'Standing' in the Bible

"Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

Someone told him, "Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to speak to you."

I tell you the truth, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."

When it was about nine o'clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work.

And about five o'clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, 'Why are you standing here all day without work?'

"So when you see the abomination of desolation -- spoken about by Daniel the prophet -- standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

After a little while, those standing there came up to Peter and said, "You really are one of them too -- even your accent gives you away!"

Then Jesus' mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.

And he said to them, "I tell you the truth, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."

Some people standing there said to them, "What are you doing, untying that colt?"

"But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

An angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense, appeared to him.

Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God.

So he was told, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you."

But I tell you most certainly, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God."

Now Peter and those with him were quite sleepy, but as they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him.

Again the next day John was standing there with two of his disciples.

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me."

They replied, "Jesus the Nazarene." He told them, "I am he." (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was standing there with them.)

But Simon Peter was left standing outside by the door. So the other disciple who was acquainted with the high priest came out and spoke to the slave girl who watched the door, and brought Peter inside.

(Now the slaves and the guards were standing around a charcoal fire they had made, warming themselves because it was cold. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.)

Meanwhile Simon Peter was standing in the courtyard warming himself. They said to him, "You aren't one of his disciples too, are you?" Peter denied it: "I am not!"

Now standing beside Jesus' cross were his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, look, here is your son!"

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this.

"We found the jail locked securely and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside."

But someone came and reported to them, "Look! The men you put in prison are standing in the temple courts and teaching the people!"

But the Lord said to him, 'Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently toward heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

"Look!" he said. "I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"

He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, 'Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,

When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she did not open the gate, but ran back in and told them that Peter was standing at the gate.

But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high social standing and the prominent men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their region.

A vision appeared to Paul during the night: A Macedonian man was standing there urging him, "Come over to Macedonia and help us!"

When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he assumed the prisoners had escaped.

And when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing nearby, approving, and guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him.'

When they had stretched him out for the lash, Paul said to the centurion standing nearby, "Is it legal for you to lash a man who is a Roman citizen without a proper trial?"

At that the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

Those standing near him said, "Do you dare insult God's high priest?"

Paul replied, "I am standing before Caesar's judgment seat, where I should be tried. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.

So if you have ordinary lawsuits, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church?

So let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ so that -- whether I come and see you or whether I remain absent -- I should hear that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, by contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

For those who have served well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and great boldness in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

However, God's solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil."

The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.

Listen! I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home and share a meal with him, and he with me.

After these things I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said: "Come up here so that I can show you what must happen after these things."

Immediately I was in the Spirit, and a throne was standing in heaven with someone seated on it!

Then I saw standing in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb that appeared to have been killed. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so no wind could blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.

After these things I looked, and here was an enormous crowd that no one could count, made up of persons from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb dressed in long white robes, and with palm branches in their hands.

Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven

Then the voice I had heard from heaven began to speak to me again, "Go and take the open scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."

Then I looked, and here was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were one hundred and forty-four thousand, who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

Then I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had conquered the beast and his image and the number of his name. They were standing by the sea of glass, holding harps given to them by God.

Then I saw one angel standing in the sun, and he shouted in a loud voice to all the birds flying high in the sky: "Come, gather around for the great banquet of God,

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened -- the book of life. So the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.