What Does Mark 14:67 Mean?
When she saw Peter warming himself, she fixed her eyes on him and said, You also were with Jesus of Nazareth.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.THE KEY
Her look exposes an association Peter is trying to conceal before he can shape the story himself.
THE MEANING
An association you leave unspoken can still become visible in how another person reads your presence. The woman looks directly at Peter and names his connection with Jesus of Nazareth, turning nearness into public speech.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A denial can make an association disappear.
THE ROOT
ἐμβλέψασα
emblépsasa
GROWS FROM
βλεπ
βλέπω (blépō): to see or look.
“fixed her eyes on him” in this verse is emblépsasa. The Greek verb directs attention toward Peter, and the sentence moves from that gaze straight to naming whom he is with. The look is part of the recognition: his association becomes visible and is spoken aloud.
ALSO GROWS
blépō: to see, look
βλέπω
This is the base verb in the same consonantal family, carrying the act of seeing within the more focused compound used of the woman’s gaze.
apoblépō: to look toward, regard
ἀποβλέπω
This compound keeps βλεπ and shows how a look can be directed toward someone or something with attention, fitting the gaze that singles Peter out.
THE PATTERN
A gaze brings a person’s identity or relation into speech.
And she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, You are El Roi, the God who sees me. For she said, Have I also here looked after the one who sees me?Jesus perceived Nathanael coming toward him, and said of him, Look, truly an Israelite, in whom there is no snare!And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crows, you shall refuse me thrice.THE THREAD
And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crows, you shall refuse me thrice.Luke uses the same Greek βλέπω (blépō) compound for the Lord’s look toward Peter. In Mark, the woman’s gaze names Peter’s association; in Luke, the Lord’s gaze brings the denied word back into view.
This reading is from Selah Verse.
You can read any verse this way in the app, keep it as a card, and send it on.
A Bible app where you send verses from your keyboard and in Messages, and every verse has a Deep Dive.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us