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Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:

Matthew 1:22-24, KJV

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Matthew 10:16, KJV

And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Mark 3:34-35, KJV

And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it. And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing. And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee. But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled

Mark 15:2-5, KJV

And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now "nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand

Luke 21:29-31, KJV

Behold, the heavens and the earth are; they proclaim that they were created; for they change and vary.

Augustine, Confessions

For You have said unto man, Behold, the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and, Desire not to seem wise; because they who affirmed themselves to be wise, became fools.

Augustine, Confessions

Stage-plays also carried me away, full of images of my miseries, and of fuel to my fire. Why is it, that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would no means suffer? yet he desires as a spectator to feel sorrow at them, this very sorrow is his pleasure.

Augustine, Confessions

I call up a hundred phantoms and indue them with a spirit; When I behold thy phantom, I cast them in the fire.

Rumi

Refrain from speaking, that you may win speech hereafter; Abandon life and the world, that you may behold the Life of the world.

Rumi

You behold in dreams a thousand moving shapes; When the dream is past you do not see a single one of the kind

Rumi

Whatever thou beholdest is loud in extolling him. That heart which has an ear is full of the divine mystery

Saadi, Gulistan

When you see discord raging among the troops of your enemy, be on your side quiet; but if you see them united, think of your own dispersed state — When thou beholdest war among thy foes, go and enjoy peace with thy friends; but if thou findest them of one soul and mind, string thy bow, and range stones around thy battlements.

Saadi, Gulistan

Regard me as I do not flatter, and Therein behold themselves

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act 3, Scene 1

yet look up, behold, That you in pity may dissolve to dew, And wash him fresh again with true-love tears.

Shakespeare, Richard II, Act 5, Scene 1

if powers divine Behold our human actions, as they do, I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush and tyranny Tremble at patience.

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 2

but the wisest beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow; but in the extremity of the one, it must needs be.

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, Act 5, Scene 2

And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beautv's best. Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their ántique pen would have expressed Ev'n such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring, And for they looked but with divining eyes, They had not skill enough your worth to sing. For we which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise

Shakespeare, Sonnet 106 <3