'Down' in the Bible

And a man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried along, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order to beg alms of those who were entering the temple.

And as he heard these words, Ananias fell down and breathed his last; and great fear came over all who heard of it.

for we have heard him say that this Nazarene, Jesus, will destroy this place and alter the customs which Moses handed down to us.”

And Jacob went down to Egypt and there he and our fathers died.

And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed by striking down the Egyptian.

I have certainly seen the oppression of My people in Egypt and have heard their groans, and I have come down to rescue them; come now, and I will send you to Egypt.’

Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began proclaiming Christ to them.

who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.

And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch, and he baptized him.

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

But when the brethren learned of it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

Now as Peter was traveling through all those regions, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

But Peter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed, and turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

and he *saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,

Peter went down to the men and said, “Behold, I am the one you are looking for; what is the reason for which you have come?”

“I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came right down to me,

When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, “Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life.”

Now at this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

When Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they be led away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and was spending time there.

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

But going on from Perga, they arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

When they had carried out all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb.

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voice, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have become like men and have come down to us.”

When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

Some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

So when they were sent away, they went down to Antioch; and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.

and passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.

And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were supposing that there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled.

And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas,

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and went down to Antioch.

After quieting the crowd, the town clerk *said, “Men of Ephesus, what man is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image which fell down from heaven?

And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

But Paul went down and fell upon him, and after embracing him, he said, “Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.”

When he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

When our days there were ended, we left and started on our journey, while they all, with wives and children, escorted us until we were out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying, we said farewell to one another.

As we were staying there for some days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

At once he took along some soldiers and centurions and ran down to them; and when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

But on the next day, wishing to know for certain why he had been accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and all the Council to assemble, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

And as a great dissension was developing, the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them and ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

Now therefore, you and the Council notify the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case by a more thorough investigation; and we for our part are ready to slay him before he comes near the place.”

And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down tomorrow to the Council, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more thoroughly about him.

“And wanting to ascertain the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their Council;

After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders, with an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought charges to the governor against Paul.

But Felix, having a more exact knowledge about the Way, put them off, saying, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case.”

After he had spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.

After Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him which they could not prove,

But before very long there rushed down from the land a violent wind, called Euraquilo;

After they had hoisted it up, they used supporting cables in undergirding the ship; and fearing that they might run aground on the shallows of Syrtis, they let down the sea anchor and in this way let themselves be driven along.

But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship’s boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,

But they were expecting that he was about to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.