'Seen' in the Bible
the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned."
"Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.
After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, "Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!"
They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.
And immediately the man stood up, took his stretcher, and went out in front of them all. They were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"
Those who had seen what had happened to the demon-possessed man reported it, and they also told about the pigs.
As they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
And when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.
Then he appeared to the eleven themselves, while they were eating, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him resurrected.
When he came out, he was not able to speak to them. They realized that he had seen a vision in the holy place, because he was making signs to them and remained unable to speak.
So the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen; everything was just as they had been told.
It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Then astonishment seized them all, and they glorified God. They were filled with awe, saying, "We have seen incredible things today."
So he answered them, "Go tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.
Those who had seen it told them how the man who had been demon-possessed had been healed.
After the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. So they kept silent and told no one at that time anything of what they had seen.
As he approached the road leading down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen:
and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.
No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
I have both seen and testified that this man is the Chosen One of God."
I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.
He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.
So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).
And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,
But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe.
(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God -- he has seen the Father.)
I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"
Then the Judeans replied, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?"
Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"
Jesus told him, "You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you."
Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.
If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him."
Jesus replied, "Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.
Mary Magdalene came and informed the disciples, "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them what Jesus had said to her.
The other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he replied, "Unless I see the wounds from the nails in his hands, and put my finger into the wounds from the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe it!"
Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed."
To the same apostles also, after his suffering, he presented himself alive with many convincing proofs. He was seen by them over a forty-day period and spoke about matters concerning the kingdom of God.
for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard."
I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.'
Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.
and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and place his hands on him so that he may see again."
But Barnabas took Saul, brought him to the apostles, and related to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.
Now while Peter was puzzling over what the vision he had seen could signify, the men sent by Cornelius had learned where Simon's house was and approached the gate.
but God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen,
He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, 'Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,
When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from the province of Asia who had seen him in the temple area stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,
(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)
because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.
But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this reason, to designate you in advance as a servant and witness to the things you have seen and to the things in which I will appear to you.
But they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly drop dead. So after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.
For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.
For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?
But just as it is written, "Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him."
each builder's work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done.
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.
Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.
And we all agree, our religion contains amazing revelation: He was revealed in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.
By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Think of how we regard as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job's endurance and you have seen the Lord's purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,
This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched (concerning the word of life --
and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).
What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us (and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).
Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
If anyone says "I love God" and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.
(Look! I will come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition be seen.)