Adverb katō (down, below) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

4: 6saying to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down (katō); for it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you,' and 'On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.'"
27: 51At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn from top until down (katō) in two. The earth shook, and the rocks were split.

Mark

14: 66While Peter was below (katō) in the courtyard, one of the servant-girls of the high priest came by.
15: 38And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top until down (katō).

Luke

4: 9Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down (katō) from here,

John

8: 6They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down (katō) and wrote with his finger on the ground.
8: 23He said to them, "You are from below (katō), I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

Acts

2: 19And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below (katō), blood, and fire, and smoky mist.
20: 9A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, began to sink off into a deep sleep while Paul talked still longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell to the ground three floors below (katō) and was picked up dead.