Mk 1:4a ... John became the-one baptizing in the wilderness, ...

Verse 4 has 2 phrases containing these 14 narrator words. The 1st phrase has these 7 words ... egeneto (438) Iōannēs (1119) ho (70) Baptizōn (1250) en (55) tēi (318) erēmōi (963) = 4,213 [became John the one baptizing in the wilderness, ...].

Diagram 1: The 7 narrator words are bottom up. The 2 words "egeneto Iōannēs" (became John) changes John from messenger to man mode so he can physically baptise other men in the river in the wilderness. God the Father is inside the Holy Spirit in the "Upper Wilderness" (upper room) and the "One Baptizing" is inside the Holy Spirit in the "Lower Wilderness" (the world, 1/4 the area of the graph). God's seven words are tangent to the "Spirit" and the "River that begins, flows through, and terminates in the sign of the "Middle Wilderness," a square 1/4th the area of the graph.

Diagram 2: The gematria value of these 7 narrator words is 4,213 units. The name of the man, John the Baptist, has a gematria value of 2220 units. The diagram shows the four red diagonal lines converging from the Jesus 8880 circle to a circle with a circumference of 2220 units have a total length of 4213 units, which is 99.4% of actual (4240). The sign of John the Baptist is perfectly tangent inside this circle (2220) as he is being immersed (baptized) in the center "Wilderness." According to the Malachi Prophecy seen through the ancient practice of Gematria, Elias is John the Baptist who heralds the coming of the Christ (the anointed one, the Messiah). John comes in verses 2 through 4, Jesus comes later in verse 8. This fulfills the Malachi prophecy.