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Jn 11:08a ... Say to-him the disciples, ... "Rabbi, (just)-now were-seeking the Jews to-stone you."

Verse 8 has 4 phrases containing 11 words. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd phrases have these 4 narrator and 7 dialog words said by the disciples to Jesus, ... legousin autō hoi mathētai, "Rabbi, nun ezētoun se lithasai oi Ioudaioi" [Say to-him the disciples, ... "Rabbi, (just)-now were-seeking the Jews you to-stone"].

The 11 words are bottom up. The four sets of words hoi mathētai (the disciples), Rabbi (Rabbi), oi Ioudaioi (the Jews), se lithasai (you to stone) are all tangent to their images. The above diagram shows the gospel text was often composed to fill the entire space between Jesus, the disciples, the Jews, the stones, and images with narrator and dialog words.

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