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Jn 5:6a ... The Jesus seeing this-one lying-down, ...

Verse 6 has 4 phrases containing 17 words. The 1st phrase has these 5 narrator words in Greek word order ... touton idōn ho Iēsous katakeimenon (This-one seeing the Jesus lying-down, ...).

The 5 words in Greek word order are clockwise, starting bottom left of the Unclean Spirit, then up to Jesus, then back down to the right of the Unclean Spirit. The words "ho Iēsous" (the Jesus), in the nominative case, are the subject of the phrase, and are tangent to the feet of Jesus. The first and fifth words "touton katakeimenon" (this-one lying-down) are in the accuative case (direct object), belong at the end of the phrase in English word order, meaning tangent to the "Unclean Spirit" holding the man, unable to stand up, trapped and lying down "inside this weakness." The text above the diagram is in proper English word order.

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