'Down' in the Bible

Then He instructed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.

So they sat down in ranks of hundreds and fifties.

You revoke God’s word by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other similar things.”

Then He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks, broke the loaves, and kept on giving them to His disciples to set before the people. So they served the loaves to the crowd.

As they were coming down from the mountain, He ordered them to tell no one what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn’t.”

Sitting down, He called the Twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down!”

A man on the housetop must not come down or go in to get anything out of his house.

They kept hitting Him on the head with a reed and spitting on Him. Getting down on their knees, they were paying Him homage.

save Yourself by coming down from the cross!”

Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe.” Even those who were crucified with Him were taunting Him.

Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, fixed it on a reed, offered Him a drink, and said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to take Him down!”

After he bought some fine linen, he took Him down and wrapped Him in the linen. Then he placed Him in a tomb cut out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.

Then after speaking to them, the Lord Jesus was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

just as the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed them down to us.

Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. His mother kept all these things in her heart.

Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

So he took Him to Jerusalem, had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here.

He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him.

Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath.

But Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be quiet and come out of him!”And throwing him down before them, the demon came out of him without hurting him at all.

He got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from the land. Then He sat down and was teaching the crowds from the boat.

When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”

“Master,” Simon replied, “we’ve worked hard all night long and caught nothing! But at Your word, I’ll let down the nets.”

Just then some men came, carrying on a mat a man who was paralyzed. They tried to bring him in and set him down before Him.

After coming down with them, He stood on a level place with a large crowd of His disciples and a great number of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.

Give, and it will be given to you; a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over—will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

and as they were sailing He fell asleep. Then a fierce windstorm came down on the lake; they were being swamped and were in danger.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and said in a loud voice, “What do You have to do with me, Jesus, You Son of the Most High God? I beg You, don’t torment me!”

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

Just then, a man named Jairus came. He was a leader of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet and pleaded with Him to come to his house,

When the woman saw that she was discovered, she came trembling and fell down before Him. In the presence of all the people, she declared the reason she had touched Him and how she was instantly cured.

(For about 5,000 men were there.)Then He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about 50 each.”

They did so, and had them all sit down.

The next day, when they came down from the mountain, a large crowd met Him.

As the boy was still approaching, the demon knocked him down and threw him into severe convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, cured the boy, and gave him back to his father.

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will go down to Hades!

Jesus took up the question and said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him up, and fled, leaving him half dead.

A priest happened to be going down that road. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that man’s last condition is worse than the first.”

I will do this,’ he said. ‘I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones and store all my grain and my goods there.

He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’

Perhaps it will bear fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’”

“For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

“Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able with 10,000 to oppose the one who comes against him with 20,000?

“‘A hundred measures of olive oil,’ he said.“‘Take your invoice,’ he told him, ‘sit down quickly, and write 50.’

“Which one of you having a slave tending sheep or plowing will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?

On that day, a man on the housetop, whose belongings are in the house, must not come down to get them. Likewise the man who is in the field must not turn back.

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else:

I tell you, this one went down to his house justified rather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down because today I must stay at your house.”

So he quickly came down and welcomed Him joyfully.

Now He came near the path down the Mount of Olives, and the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen:

“These things that you see—the days will come when not one stone will be left on another that will not be thrown down!”

Then He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and began to pray,

They lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, and Peter sat among them.

because the sun’s light failed. The curtain of the sanctuary was split down the middle.

Taking it down, he wrapped it in fine linen and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had ever been placed.

So the women were terrified and bowed down to the ground.“Why are you looking for the living among the dead?” asked the men.

After this, He went down to Capernaum, together with His mother, His brothers, and His disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.

Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and pleaded with Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

“Sir,” the official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies!”

While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive.

because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had].

“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

So Jesus went up a mountain and sat down there with His disciples.

Then Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. The men numbered about 5,000.

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

For the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

At dawn He went to the temple complex again, and all the people were coming to Him. He sat down and began to teach them.

They asked this to trap Him, in order that they might have evidence to accuse Him.Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with His finger.

Then He stooped down again and continued writing on the ground.

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

as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep.

This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from My Father.”

“Lord,” Peter asked, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You!”

Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for Me? I assure you: A rooster will not crow until you have denied Me three times.

No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.

When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge’s bench in a place called the Stone Pavement (but in Hebrew Gabbatha).

Stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying there, yet he did not go in.

This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.

For we heard him say that Jesus, this Nazarene, will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

and Jacob went down to Egypt. He and our ancestors died there,

When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.

I have observed the oppression of My people in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to rescue them. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt.

Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin!” And saying this, he fell asleep.

Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah to them.

After they went down there, they prayed for them, so the Samaritans might receive the Holy Spirit.

For He had not yet come down on any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.