35 Bible Verses about Sitting
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now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat him down by the well: it being about the sixth hour.
After this, Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemani, and said to the disciples, stay here, while I go there and pray.
Who of you having a servant, that plows, or feeds your cattle, will immediately upon his coming from field, say to him, come and sit at table?
then giving orders for the company to sit down on the grass, he took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks; then breaking the loaves into pieces, he gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the company: who all of them eat,
be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
Jesus, to avoid this crowd of people, went to a mountain: and when he was set down, his disciples came to him. and he addressed himself to them in these instructions.
and there was so great a croud of people got about him, that he was oblig'd to go into a bark, where he sat, while the people all stood on the shore.
then sitting down, he address'd himself to the twelve, saying, he that would be the first, must be the last of all, and the servant of all.
three days after they found him in the temple, sitting near the doctors, attending to them and asking them questions.
now she had a sister, named Mary, who placed herself at the feet of Jesus, to attend to his discourse.
but early in the morning he return'd to the temple, where all the people came to him; and being sat down, he instructed them.
they replied, when you are in your glory, grant that we may sit, the one on your right hand, and the other on your left.
Jesus reply'd, I am: moreover I declare to you, within a while ye shall see the son of man sitting on the right hand of God, and coming on the clouds of heaven.
for in the book of Psalms David himself says, "the Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand,
who being the radiation of his glory, and the imprest image of his substance, and governing all things by his powerful command, after having himself made expiation for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the divine majesty in the highest heavens.
Christ, after he had offered one sacrifice for sin, sat down on the right hand of God for ever:
having Jesus in our view, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God.
to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my father in his throne.
four and twenty elders fell down before him that sat on the throne, and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
They cried with a loud voice, "salvation from our God who sits upon the throne, and unto the lamb.'
When the son of man shall come in his majesty, accompanied with all his holy angels, he shall sit upon the throne of his glory.
Whilst he was sitting on the tribunal, his wife sent this message to him, pray, have nothing to do with that just man: for to-day I have suffered very much on his account in a dream.
that you may eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom, and seated on thrones may judge the twelve tribes of Israel.
which made Paul say, "may God strike thee, thou plaister'd wall: you sit to judge me according to law, and in defiance of the law you order me to be struck!"
but in a little time the son of man shall be seated on the powerful right hand of God.
which he exerted in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at the head of his heavenly kingdom,
Topics on Sitting
God Sitting In Glory
Revelation 5:13and every creature which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I, saying, "blessing, and honour, and glory, and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the lamb for ever and ever."
People Sitting Down
John 6:10but Jesus said, make the men sit down. and as there was much grass in the place, they sat down to the number of about five thousand.
Sitting At The Feet
Luke 8:35and country, whence numbers went to see the fact: being come to Jesus, they found the man, who had been dispossess'd of the demons, sitting at Jesus's feet, cloathed, and in his right senses: at which they were much surpriz'd,
Sitting In Dejection
Matthew 4:16the people which sat in darkness, saw a great light: and to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up."
Sitting In Fellowship
1 Corinthians 10:7be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
Sitting In Security
Ephesians 2:6he hath raised us up together, and made us partakers of his heavenly kingdom.
Sitting In The Gateway
Acts 3:2they were carrying a man who had been lame from his birth, one whom they daily laid at the gate of the temple called, Beauty-gate, to ask alms of those that pass'd into the temple.