ἐμβλέπω

Matthew 6:26 ἐμβλέψατε do look

Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Here: A command to all the hearers (plural): stop and really look. It is more than a glance. Jesus points to something in plain view and asks them to think about what they see.

Matthew 19:26 ἐμβλέψας Having looked on [them]

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Here: More than a glance. Jesus looks straight at the stunned disciples before he answers, so the reply comes as a deliberate, personal word to them.

Mark 8:25 ἐνέβλεπεν he was seeing well

Once again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and when he opened them his sight was restored, and he could see everything clearly.

Mark 10:21 ἐμβλέψας having looked

Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Here: More than a glance. It means fixing the eyes on someone, a searching and deliberate look. Mark uses the same verb a few verses later (10:27), when Jesus looks at his disciples before saying "with God all things are possible."

Mark 10:27 ἐμβλέψας Having looked

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

Here: Not a passing glance but a deliberate, fixed look straight at the disciples. Mark used the same verb a few verses earlier when Jesus "looked at" the rich man and loved him (10:21); the look comes before a weighty word.

Mark 14:67 ἐμβλέψασα having looked

and saw him warming himself there. She looked at Peter and said, “You also were with Jesus the Nazarene.”

Here: A stronger verb than 'see': she fixes her eyes on him and studies his face. In Mark this is the verb used for Jesus' searching gaze (10:21, 27). Here the searching look is turned on Peter by a hostile stranger.

Luke 20:17 ἐμβλέψας having looked

But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

Here: Not a glance. He fixes his eyes on them, a deliberate and pointed look before the words come. Luke uses the same verb when the Lord turns and looks at Peter (22:61).

Luke 22:61 ἐνέβλεψεν looked at

And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word that the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”

Here: Not a glance. It means 'looked straight at, fixed his eyes on'. The tense presents it as a single, decisive look.

John 1:36 ἐμβλέψας having looked at

When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”

Here: More than 'saw.' John fixes his eyes on Jesus. The aorist participle ('having looked') puts the look first, and the words come out of it. This Gospel uses the same verb again in 1:42, when Jesus looks hard at Simon and gives him a new name.

John 1:42 ἐμβλέψας Having looked at

Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).

Here: Not a passing glance. Jesus looks hard at Simon, a searching look that sees who he is. He speaks before Simon says a word.

Acts 1:11 ἐμβλέποντες looking

“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.”

Here: Fixed, searching looking, a step past a casual glance. It carries on the "gazing intently" (ἀτενίζοντες) of verse 10.

Acts 22:11 ἐνέβλεπον I was seeing

Because the brilliance of the light had blinded me, my companions led me by the hand into Damascus.