1. Revelation 11:9 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is meant by “gaze”?

Revelation 11:9 (ESV)

9 For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,

The term used in the Greek means to look at, and in the form in which it is written it catches the notion of looking continually. We may picture these folks from every corner of the world standing there at length staring at these dead witnesses to the gospel.