'Down' in the Bible

After they went into the house and saw the child with his mother Mary, they fell down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasure sacks and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree that isn't producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

He told Jesus, "Since you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, because it is written, "God will put his angels in charge of you,' and, "With their hands they will hold you up, so that you will never hit your foot against a rock.'"

He told Jesus, "I will give you all these things if you will bow down and worship me!"

Every tree that doesn't produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire.

When Jesus came down from the hillside, large crowds followed him.

Suddenly, a leper came up to him, fell down before him, and said, "Sir, if you want to, you can make me clean."

He told them, "Go," and they came out and went into the pigs. Suddenly, the whole herd rushed down a steep slope into the sea and drowned in the water.

While Jesus was telling them these things, an official came up and fell down before him. "My daughter has just died," he said. "But come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."

"And you, Capernaum! You won't be lifted up to heaven, will you? You'll go down to Hell! Because if the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.

"Come to me, all of you who are weary and loaded down with burdens, and I will give you rest.

That day Jesus left the house and sat down beside the sea.

Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, while the entire crowd stood on the shore.

When it was full, the fishermen hauled it ashore. Then they sat down, sorted the good fish into containers, and threw the bad ones away.

Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

Jesus said, "Come on!" So Peter got down out of the boat, started walking on the water, and came to Jesus.

Then she came and fell down before him, saying, "Lord, help me!"

Jesus left there and went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on a hillside and sat down.

Ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground,

On their way down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, "Don't tell anyone about this vision until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead."

As they approached the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, knelt down in front of him,

Then the servant fell down and bowed low before him, saying, "Be patient with me, and I will repay you everything!'

Then his fellow servant fell down and began begging him, "Be patient with me and I will repay you!'

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons. She bowed down in front of him to ask him for a favor.

Many people in the crowd spread their own coats on the road, while others began cutting down branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.

But he told them, "You see all these things, don't you? I tell all of you with certainty, there isn't a single stone here that will be left standing on top of another. They will all be torn down."

Anyone who's on the housetop must not come down to get what is in his house,

Since the groom was late, all of them became sleepy and lay down.

Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane. He told the disciples, "Sit down here while I go over there and pray."

Peter, however, followed him at a distance as far as the high priest's courtyard. He went inside and sat down with the servants to see how this would end.

Twisting some thorns into a victor's crown, they placed it on his head and put a stick in his right hand. They knelt down in front of him and began making fun of him, saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!"

Then they sat down there and continued guarding him.

and saying, "You who were going to destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days save yourself! If you're the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

"He saved others but can't save himself! He is the king of Israel. Let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

Suddenly, there was a powerful earthquake, because an angel of the Lord had come down from heaven, approached the stone, rolled it away, and was sitting on top of it.

He kept proclaiming, "The one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to bend down and untie his sandal straps.

Since they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. They dug through it and let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, "You are the Son of God!"

The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem kept repeating, "He has Beelzebul," and, "He drives out demons by the ruler of demons."

Then he got up, rebuked the wind, and told the sea, "Calm down! Be still!" Then the wind stopped blowing, and there was a great calm.

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell down in front of him,

So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down a steep slope into the sea and drowned there.

So the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward fearfully, fell down trembling in front of him, and told him the whole truth.

Then he ordered them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.

So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

You are destroying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other things like that."

In fact, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell down at his feet.

So he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and gave thanks. He broke them in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples to distribute. So they served them to the crowd.

On their way down the mountain, Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

So he sat down, called the Twelve, and told them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

As Jesus was setting out again, a man ran up to him, knelt down in front of him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

Jesus told him, "Go. Your faith has made you well." At once the man could see again, and he began to follow Jesus down the road.

"Do you see these large buildings?" Jesus responded. "Not one stone here will be left on another that will not be torn down."

The one who's on his housetop must not come down and go into his house to take anything out of it,

Then they came to a place called Gethsemane, and he told his disciples, "Sit down here while I pray."

While Peter was down in the courtyard, one of the high priest's servant girls came by.

Just then a rooster crowed a second time. Peter remembered that Jesus told him, "Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." Then he broke down and cried.

save yourself and come down from the cross!"

Let the Messiah, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, since seeing is believing!" Even the men who were crucified with him kept insulting him.

So someone ran and soaked a sponge in some sour wine. Then he put it on a stick and offered Jesus a drink, saying, "Wait! Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down!"

Joseph bought some linen cloth, took the body down, wrapped it in the cloth, laid it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

So the Lord Jesus, after talking with his disciples, was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

just as they were passed down to us by those who had been eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning,

The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire."

The Devil also took him into Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the Temple. He told Jesus, "Since you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. While the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him,

Then Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee, and began teaching the people on Sabbath days.

But Jesus rebuked him. "Be quiet," he said, "and come out of him!" At this, the demon threw the man down in the middle of the synagogue and came out of him without hurting him.

So Jesus got into one of the boats (the one that belonged to Simon) and asked him to push out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and began to teach the crowds from the boat.

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at Jesus' knees and said, "Leave me, Lord! I am a sinful man!" -

When they couldn't find a way to get him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on his stretcher through the tiles into the middle of the room, right in front of Jesus.

Then Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place, along with many of his disciples and a large gathering of people from all over Judea, Jerusalem, and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.

Give, and it will be given to you. A large quantity, pressed together, shaken down, and running over will be put into your lap, because you'll be evaluated by the same standard with which you evaluate others."

When he saw Jesus, he screamed, fell down in front of him, and cried out in a loud voice, "What do you want from me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"

Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down a steep slope into the lake and drowned.

When the woman saw that she couldn't hide, she came forward trembling. Bowing down in front of him, she explained in the presence of all the people why she had touched Jesus and how she had been instantly healed.

Now there were about 5,000 men. So he told his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about 50."

The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a large crowd met Jesus.

When his disciples James and John observed this rejection, they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?"

And you, Capernaum! You won't be lifted up to heaven, will you? You'll go down to Hell!

After careful consideration, Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of bandits. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.

She had a sister named Mary, who sat down at the Lord's feet and kept listening to what he was saying.

Then he said, "This is what I'll do. I'll tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and I'll store all my grain and goods in them.

How blessed are those servants whom the master finds watching for him when he comes! I tell all of you with certainty, he himself will put on an apron, make them sit down at the table, and go around and serve them.

So he told the gardener, "Look here! For three years I've been coming to look for fruit on this tree but I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it waste the soil?'

Maybe next year it will bear fruit. If not, then cut it down.'"

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, don't sit down at the place of honor in case someone more important than you was invited by the host.

But when you are invited, go and sit down at the place of least honor. Then, when your host comes, he will tell you, "Friend, move up higher,' and you will be honored in the presence of everyone who eats with you.

"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. He will first sit down and estimate the cost to see whether he has enough money to finish it, won't he?

"Or suppose a king is going to war against another king. He will first sit down and consider whether with 10,000 men he can fight the one coming against him with 20,000 men, won't he?

The man replied, "A hundred jars of olive oil.' The manager told him, "Get your bill. Sit down quickly and write "50."'

But on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed all of them.

"The person who is on the housetop that day must not come down to get his belongings out of his house. The person in the field, too, must not turn back to what's left behind.

Jesus also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves, thinking they were righteous, but who looked down on everyone else:

I tell you, this man, rather than the other one, went down to his home justified, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the person who humbles himself will be exalted."

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

Zacchaeus came down quickly and was glad to welcome him into his home.

"As for these things that you see, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another that won't be knocked down."

"Constantly be on your guard so that your hearts will not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, or that day will take you by surprise

so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit down on thrones to govern the twelve tribes of Israel."