Verb theaomai (to look at, to notice) in the Gospels-Acts

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


Matthew

6: 1"Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be noticed (theaomai) by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven.
11: 7As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to look at (theaomai)? A reed shaken by the wind?
22: 11"But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed (theaomai) a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe,
23: 5They do all their deeds to be noticed (theaomai) by others; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long.

Mark

16: 11But when they heard that he was alive and had been looked at (theaomai) by her, they would not believe it.
16: 14Later he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table; and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who looked at (theaomai) him after he had risen.

Luke

5: 27After this he went out and noticed (theaomai) a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, "Follow me."
7: 24When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to look at (theaomai)? A reed shaken by the wind?
23: 55The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and they noticed (theaomai) the tomb and how his body was laid.

John

1: 14And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have looked at (theaomai) his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.
1: 32And John testified, "I looked at (theaomai) the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.
1: 38When Jesus turned and noticed (theaomai) them following, he said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which translated means Teacher), "where are you staying?"
4: 35Do you not say, 'Four months more, then comes the harvest'? But I tell you, look around you, and notice (theaomai) how the fields are ripe for harvesting.
6: 5When he looked up and noticed (theaomai) a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?"
11: 45Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had noticed (theaomai) what Jesus did, believed in him.

Acts

1: 11They said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you looked at (theaomai) him going into heaven."
21: 27When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, who had noticed (theaomai) him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd. They seized him,
22: 9Now those who were with me looked at (theaomai) the light but did not hear the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

1 John

1: 1We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have looked at (theaomai) with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life -
4: 12No one has ever looked at (theaomai) God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
4: 14And we have looked at (theaomai) and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.