What Does Mark 5:32 Mean?
And he looked around to see the one who had done this thing.
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King James wording
King James Version
And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.THE KEY
Healing does not stop at the touch: the gaze searches through the crowd for the person who reached out.
THE MEANING
The one who reaches out in secret is not left as an anonymous event; he keeps looking until she is seen. Hiddenness gives way to recognition.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that a hidden reach leaves its person unseen and anonymous.
THE ROOT
περιεβλέπετο
perieblepeto
GROWS FROM
βλέπω
to look, to see
“looked round about” in this verse is perieblepeto. The verb περιβλέπομαι (periblepomai) describes a gaze moving around the scene; its base, βλέπω, also appears in the disciples’ “Thou seest” in the verse just before. They see a pressing crowd, while he looks around for the one person within it, moving attention from the mass to an encounter.
ALSO GROWS
blepō: look, see
βλέπω
The same base appears in the disciples’ “Thou seest the multitude” (Mark 5:31), setting their view of the crowd beside his search for the woman.
emblepō: look intently, gaze at
ἐμβλέπω
Mark 10:21 uses this compound for Jesus’ gaze on one man; here, too, seeing turns toward a particular person.
THE PATTERN
A divine gaze finds a particular person amid vulnerability, obscurity, or a crowd.
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 looked at him and loved him, and said to him, One thing is lacking to you. Go, sell what you have, and give to the emptied, and you will have treasure in heaven. Come, take up the cross, and follow me.And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and perceived him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay in your house."THE THREAD
And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing upon you, and you say, Who touched me?"The disciples’ “seest” and Jesus’ “looked round about” share the Greek root βλέπω (blepō), to look or see. They register the crowd pressing in; he searches for the person behind the touch.
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