'Seen' in the Bible

After hearing the king, they went their way; and the star, which they had seen in the east, went on before them until it came and stood over the place where the Child was.

“When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.

“Whenever you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they neglect their appearance so that they will be noticed by men when they are fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.

so that your fasting will not be noticed by men, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

After the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke; and the crowds were amazed, and were saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.”

And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and were glorifying God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this.”

Those who had seen it described to them how it had happened to the demon-possessed man, and all about the swine.

and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed.

As they were coming down from the mountain, He gave them orders not to relate to anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man rose from the dead.

When they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they refused to believe it.

Afterward He appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen.

But when he came out, he was unable to speak to them; and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple; and he kept making signs to them, and remained mute.

When they had seen this, they made known the statement which had been told them about this Child.

The shepherds went back, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as had been told them.

And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

For my eyes have seen Your salvation,

They were all struck with astonishment and began glorifying God; and they were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen remarkable things today.”

And He answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Those who had seen it reported to them how the man who was demon-possessed had been made well.

And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent, and reported to no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.

As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen,

and did not find His body, they came, saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive.

No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

I myself have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.

What He has seen and heard, of that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.

So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.

But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.

I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father.”

So the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”

Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him, and He is the one who is talking with you.”

If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.”

Jesus *said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

Mary Magdalene *came, announcing to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and that He had said these things to her.

So the other disciples were saying to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”

Jesus *said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”

for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

I have certainly seen the oppression of My people in Egypt and have heard their groans, and I have come down to rescue them; come now, and I will send you to Egypt.’

“Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen.

and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him, so that he might regain his sight.”

But Barnabas took hold of him and brought him to the apostles and described to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked to him, and how at Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.

Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what the vision which he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions for Simon’s house, appeared at the gate;

And he reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and have Simon, who is also called Peter, brought here;

This man was listening to Paul as he spoke, who, when he had fixed his gaze on him and had seen that he had faith to be made well,

When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

For you will be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

But get up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you;

But they were expecting that he was about to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?

but just as it is written,“Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,And which have not entered the heart of man,All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face,

Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,

who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.

and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life—

and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us—

what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.

No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.

If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things.