καθέζομαι

G2516 means to sit down or be seated. Seven forms occur in seven verses across Matthew, Luke, John, and Acts. Jesus says He sat teaching daily in the temple courts before His arrest. At twelve years old He is found sitting among the teachers, listening and asking questions. In John, Jesus sits by Jacob's well in weariness, Mary remains seated at home during her grief, and angels sit where Jesus' body had lain. Acts places members of the Sanhedrin seated before Stephen and Eutychus seated in a window before his fall.

The verb usually supplies physical placement rather than a symbolic doctrine. Yet those placements help readers attend to embodied scenes: Jesus' public teaching, His true weariness, a grieving household, the empty tomb, a hostile council, and a vulnerable listener. The passage, not the posture by itself, supplies the theological meaning. Acts 20:9 also has a textual distinction: current editions use G2516, while traditional witnesses use the related G2521. That variation should be recorded without turning two sitting verbs into one identity.

G2516 is a scene-setting verb across seven passages. It locates Jesus, Mary, angels, council members, and Eutychus in embodied narrative settings without making seated posture automatically symbolic.