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Jn 1:50a ... Answered Jesus and said to him, ... "Because I told you that I saw you underneath the fig tree, do you believe?"

Verse 50 has 4 phrases and 18 words. The first 3 phrases contain 5 narrator and 10 dialog words ... Apekrithē Iēsous kai eipen autō, ... "Hoti eipon soi hoti eidon se hupokatō tēs sukēs pisteueis" (Answered Jesus and said to him, ... "Because I told you that I saw you underneath the fig tree, do you believe")?

Diagram 1: The 15 narrator and dialog words are top down, tangent to Jesus, the fig tree, and the triangle holding Nathanael and the circles representing what he believes. Jesus asks Nathanael a rhetorical question that is also directed at the reader. Jesus then follows up with a short sentence in the fourth phrase which is a preview of what can be seen in verse 1:51.

Diagram 2: shows Jesus standing above the fig tree. Nathaniel is under it like the question says. The sign of Nathaniel's believing rises up until the circles of his belief are tangent to the sign of the fig inside the tree then up to the sign of the Holy Spirit holding Jesus. The fig has the sign of a circle with a diameter equal to the gematria value of "fruit" (karpos 471) and a circumference equal to the gematria value of Christ (Xristos = 1480).

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