What Does Mark 11:11 Mean in the King James?
And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The pause after Jesus sees everything is part of the encounter: he takes it all in, then leaves.
THE MEANING
Your whole situation is held within a gaze that skips nothing. The verse leaves space between seeing and acting: the look is complete, and Jesus leaves as evening comes.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a real encounter must produce an immediate visible change: here the gaze is complete, and Jesus still leaves as evening comes.
THE ROOT
περιβλεψάμενος
periblepsámenos
GROWS FROM
βλεπ
βλεπ (blép): see, look
“looked round about” in this verse is periblepsámenos. περιβλέπω (periblépō, look around) is built on βλέπω (blépō, see) with περί (perí, around). The verb carries an encompassing gaze, and “upon all things” names the breadth of what it takes in.
ALSO GROWS
periblépō: look around, survey
περιβλέπω
This is the verse’s verb in its dictionary form; its περί (perí, around) prefix gives the seeing its encompassing movement.
anablépō: look up; regain sight
ἀναβλέπω
It shares the βλέπ (blép, see) root and shows that this family of words can describe not only looking, but sight returning.
THE PATTERN
A whole seeing can precede action, while the next movement need not be immediate.
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.THE THREAD
And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.Mark uses the same verb, περιβλέπω (periblépō, look around), for Jesus’ gaze in both scenes. In this verse he surveys the temple and leaves; in Mark 3:5 that surrounding gaze precedes the man’s restored hand.
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