'Stood' in the Bible

While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him.

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

At this, the high priest stood up and asked Jesus, "Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?"

But Jesus took his hand and helped him up, and he stood up.

Then some men stood up and gave false testimony against him, saying,

Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, "Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?"

When the centurion who stood facing Jesus saw how he had cried out and breathed his last, he said, "This man certainly was the Son of God!"

Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been raised. As was his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. When he stood up to read,

So the man immediately stood up in front of them and picked up what he had been lying on. Then he went home, praising God.

But Jesus knew what they were thinking. So he told the man with the paralyzed hand, "Get up, and stand in the middle of the synagogue." So he got up and stood there.

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.

Just then an expert in the Law stood up to test Jesus. He asked, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and began praising God.

As he was going into a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, "O God, I thank you that I'm not like other people thieves, dishonest people, adulterers, or even this tax collector.

"But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even look up to heaven. Instead, he continued to beat his chest and said, "O God, be merciful to me, the sinner that I am!'

Later, Zacchaeus stood up and announced to the Lord, "Look! I'm giving half of my possessions to the destitute, and if I have accused anyone falsely, I'm repaying four times as much as I owe."

"You are the ones who have always stood by me in my trials.

Meanwhile, the high priests and the scribes stood nearby and continued to accuse him vehemently.

Meanwhile, the people stood looking on. The leaders were mocking him by saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if he is the Messiah of God, the chosen one!"

While they were puzzling over this, two men in dazzling robes suddenly stood beside them.

He asked them, "What are you discussing with each other as you're walking along?" They stood still and looked gloomy.

While they were all talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and told them, "Peace be with you."

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

Then Jesus stood up and asked her, "Dear lady, where are your accusers? Hasn't anyone condemned you?"

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?"

Peter, however, stood outside the gate. So this other disciple who was known to the high priest went out and spoke to the gatekeeper and brought Peter inside.

Meanwhile, Mary stood crying outside the tomb. As she cried, she bent over and looked into the tomb.

It was the evening of the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them. He told them, "Peace be with you."

A week later, his disciples were again inside, and Thomas was with them. Even though the doors were shut, Jesus came, stood among them, and said, "Peace be with you."

Just as dawn was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore. The disciples didn't realize it was Jesus.

While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, two men in white robes stood right beside them.

Then Peter stood up among the eleven apostles and raised his voice to address them:

and he sprang to his feet, stood up, and began to walk. Then he went with them into the Temple, walking, jumping, and praising God.

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the Council and ordered the men to be taken outside for a little while.

But some men who belonged to the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), as well as some Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia, stood up and began to debate with Stephen.

Cornelius replied, "Four days ago at this very hour, three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my home. All at once a man in radiant clothes stood in front of me

Then Paul stood up, motioned with his hand, and said:

But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, "The gentiles must be circumcised and ordered to keep the Law of Moses."

After a lengthy debate, Peter stood up and told them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days, God chose me to be the one among you through whom the gentiles would hear the message of the gospel and believe.

So Paul stood up in front of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in every way.

came to me. He stood beside me and said, "Brother Saul, receive your sight!' At that moment I could see him.

There was a great deal of shouting until some of the scribes who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and argued forcefully, "We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?"

That night the Lord stood near Paul and said, "Have courage! For just as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, you must testify in Rome, too."

Otherwise, these men themselves should tell what wrong they found when I stood before the Council

unless it is for the one thing I shouted as I stood among them: "It is for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.'"

When his accusers stood up, they didn't accuse him of any of the crimes I was expecting.

After they had gone a long time without food, Paul stood among his shipmates and said, "Men, you should have listened to me and not have sailed from Crete. You would have avoided this hardship and damage.

For just last night an angel of God, to whom I belong and whom I serve, stood by me

As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations." Abraham acted in faith when he stood in the presence of God, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence things that don't yet exist.

However, the Lord stood by me and gave me strength so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the gentiles could hear it. I was rescued out of a lion's mouth.

All the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshipped God,

Another angel came with a gold censer and stood at the altar. He was given a large quantity of incense to offer on the gold altar before the throne, along with the prayers of all the saints.

But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet. Those who watched them were terrified.

Its tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky and knocked them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that it could devour her child when it was born.

Then the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore.

Every ship's captain, everyone who traveled by ship, sailors, and everyone who made a living from the sea stood far away. When they saw the smoke rising from the fire that consumed her, they began to cry out, "What city was like that great city?"