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Mk 1:13a ... And he-was in the wilderness forty days, tested under the Satan, ...

Verse 13 has 4 phrases containing 21 narrator words. The 1st and 2nd phrases have 11 words ... kai ēn en te erēmō tesserakonta hēmeras, peiazomenos hupo tou Satana (And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted under the Satan).

The first phrase of 7 words is bottom up. The last 2 words "tesserakonta hēmeras" (forty days) are tangent to the "the Spirit" and the rectangle holding the "forty days." The second phrase of 4 words is top down. The last 2 words "tou Satana" (the Satan) are tangent to the triangle holding the image of Satan. In the above diagram, exactly forty heads of Jesus (888) fit inside the sign of "the Wilderness." The diagram matches the imagery of the text.