35 Bible Verses about Sitting
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And Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples: Sit here, till I go and pray yonder.
Which of you that has a servant plowing, or feeding a flock, will say to him immediately, when he comes in from the field, Go and recline at table?
And he commanded the multitudes to recline upon the grass: and he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke, and gave the bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the multitudes.
Neither be you idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written: Tho people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to engage in idolatrous sport.
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain; and when he had sat down, his disciples came to him; and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
And many multitudes came together to him, so that he went into a ship and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
And he sat down and called the twelve, and said to them: If any one desires to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.
And it came to pass, after three days, that they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at the feet of Jesus, and heard his word.
And in the morning he again entered the temple, and all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.
They said to him: Grant to us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left, in thy glory.
Jesus said to him: You have said. Moreover, I say to you, Hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the Almighty, and coming upon the clouds of heaven.
Even David himself says, in the book of Psalms: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,
who, being the effulgence of his glory and the exact representation of his essence, and upholding all things by his own powerful word, when he had by himself made expiation for our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
but after offering one sacrifice for sins, he himself sits continually at the right hand of God,
looking to Jesus the author and finisher of the faith, who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
To him that overcomes, I will give to sit with me in my throne, even as I also have overcome, and have taken my seat with my father in his throne.
the twenty-four elders fall down before him that sits on the throne, and worship him that lives from age to age, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying: Thou art worthy, Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and by thy will they exist, and were created.
and they cried with a loud voice, saying: Salvation to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.
When the Son of man shall come in his own glory, and all the holy angels with him, then will he sit on the throne of his own glory;
While he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent to him, saying: Have nothing to do with that just man, for I have suffered much to-day in a dream, because of him.
that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Then Paul said to him: God will smite you, you whitened wall! for do you sit to judge me according to the law, and yet violate the law by commanding me to be smitten?
Henceforth the Son of man shall sit on the right hand of the power of God.
which he made active in the Christ when he raised him from the dead, and caused him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
and raised us up, and made us sit together in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus;
Topics on Sitting
God Sitting In Glory
Revelation 5:13And every creature that is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are on the sea, even all that are in them, I heard saying: To him that sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and strength from age to age.
People Sitting Down
John 6:10But Jesus said: Make die men recline. Now, there was much grass in the place. So the men reclined, in number about five thousand.
Sitting At The Feet
Luke 8:35And they came out to see what had been done; and they came to Jesus, and saw the man out of whom the demons had gone, clothed, and in his right mind, sitting at the feet of Jesus; and they were afraid.
Sitting In Dejection
Matthew 4:16the people that sat in darkness saw great light; and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has risen.
Sitting In Fellowship
1 Corinthians 10:7Neither be you idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written: Tho people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to engage in idolatrous sport.
Sitting In Security
Ephesians 2:6and raised us up, and made us sit together in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus;
Sitting In The Gateway
Acts 3:2And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb, was carried along, whom they laid daily at that gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, that he might ask charity of those who were going into the temple.