The fact that
θεᾶσθαι
apart from this section does not occur in Mark, forms, considering the frequency of the use of the word elsewhere, one of the signs of a strange hand. By
ἐθεάθη
is not merely indicated that He had been seen, but that He had been gazed upon. Comp. Mar_16:14, and see Tittmann, Synon. p. 120 f.
ἀπιστεῖν
does not occur in Mark except here and at Mar_16:16, but is altogether of rare occurrence in the N. T. (even in Luke only in chap. 24)