Mark 3:34

3:34 And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, “Here ¹  are my mother and my brothers!

Mark 10:23

10:23 Then ²  Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

Mark 11:11

11:11 Then ³  Jesus ⁴  entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. And after looking around at everything, he went out to Bethany with the twelve since it was already late.

Mark 3:5

3:5 After looking around ⁵  at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, ⁶  he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. ⁷ 

¹ tn Grk “Behold my mother and my brothers.”

² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Then” to indicate the transition from the previous narrative.

⁴ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn The aorist participle περιβλεψάμενος (peribleyameno") has been translated as antecedent (prior) to the action of the main verb. It could also be translated as contemporaneous (“Looking around…he said”).

⁵ tn This term is a collective singular in the Greek text.

⁶ sn The passive was restored points to healing by God. Now the question became: Would God exercise his power through Jesus, if what Jesus was doing were wrong? Note also Jesus’ “labor.” He simply spoke and it was so.