35 Bible Verses about Sitting
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and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was sitting by the spring just as He was. It was about noon.
Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and He said to the disciples, "Sit down here while I go over yonder and pray."
"What man among you, if he has a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your seat at the table,'
After ordering the crowds to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and two fish and looked up to heaven and blessed them; then He broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to the disciples, and they gave them to the people.
Now stop being idolaters, as some of them were, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance."
When He saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain. After He had taken His seat, His disciples came up to Him. Then He opened His mouth and continued to teach them as follows:
And the crowds that gathered about Him were so great that He got into a boat and remained sitting in it, while all the crowd stood on the seashore.
So He sat down and called the Twelve to Him and said, "If anyone wants to be the first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."
And after three days they finally found Him in the temple sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
She had a sister named Mary who took her seat at the Lord's feet, and remained listening to His message.
Early the next morning, He had come into the temple again, and all the people were gathering around Him. Having sat down, He began to teach them.
They answered Him, "Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your splendor."
Jesus answered him, "Yes, I am. But I tell you, you will all soon see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty, and coming on the clouds of the sky."
For David himself in the Book of Psalms says: 'The Lord has said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,
He is the reflection of God's glory and the perfect representation of His being, and continues to uphold the universe by His mighty word. After He had procured man's purification from sins, He took His seat at the right hand of God's majesty,
But this One offered up once for all and for all time one sacrifice for sins, and once for all took His seat at God's right hand,
keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
I will give to him who conquers the privilege of taking his seat with me on my throne, just as I have conquered and taken my seat with my Father on His throne.
the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who is seated on the throne, and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and they throw their crowns in front of the throne, and say:
and they cried in a loud voice: "Our salvation is due to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb."
"When the Son of Man comes in His splendor, and all the angels with Him, He will take His seat on His splendid throne,
Now while he was on the bench, his wife sent him this word, "Do not have anything to do with that righteous man, for I have this morning suffered excruciating pain in a dream caused by Him."
so I confer on you the privilege of eating and drinking at my table in my kingdom and of sitting on thrones and judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Then Paul said to him, "You white-washed wall, God will strike you! Do you sit as a judge to try me in accordance with the law and yet in violation of the law you order them to strike me?"
But from today the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God."
when He raised Christ from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in heaven,
And He raised us with Him and through union with Christ Jesus He made us sit down with Him in the heavenly realm,
Topics on Sitting
God Sitting In Glory
Revelation 5:13Then I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, underneath the earth, and on the sea, and all that they contain, say: "Blessing, honor, glory, and power be to Him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb forever."
People Sitting Down
John 6:10Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot; so the men, about five thousand, threw themselves down.
Sitting At The Feet
Luke 8:35So the people went out to see what had taken place, and they went to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, with his clothes on and in his right mind; and they were frightened.
Sitting In Dejection
Matthew 4:16The people that were living in darkness have seen a great light, and on those that were living in the land of the shadow of death; a light has dawned."
Sitting In Fellowship
1 Corinthians 10:7Now stop being idolaters, as some of them were, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance."
Sitting In Security
Ephesians 2:6And He raised us with Him and through union with Christ Jesus He made us sit down with Him in the heavenly realm,
Sitting In The Gateway
Acts 3:2when a man crippled from his birth was being carried by, who used to be laid every day at what was called The Beautiful Gate of the temple, to beg from people on their way into the temple.