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Mk 1:17 ... And said to-them the Jesus, ... "Come after me, and I-will-make you become fishers of-men."

Verse 17 has 3 phrases containing these 14 words ... Kai eipen autois ho Iēsous, Deute opisō mou, kai poiēsō humas genesthai alieis anthrōpōn (And said to them the Jesus, ... "Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of men.").

Diagram 1: The first phrase has these 5 narrator words. ... Kai eipen autois ho Iēsous (And said to them the Jesus ...). The 5 words are bottom up. Mark, the narrator says the five words that that sets the scene before Jesus speaks. The two words "ho Iēsous" are tangent to "the Jesus." The 3 words "Kai eipen autois" (And said to them) are tangent to Jesus speaking from the shoreline to Simon and Andrew in the back of their boat.

Diagram 2: The second and third phrases have these 9 dialog words ... Deute opisō mou, kai poiēsō humas genesthai alieis anthrōpōn ("Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of men"). The 9 words are top down. The 3 words of the second phrase are tangent to the triangles holding Jesus above and Simon and Andrew just under Jesus. Simon and Andrew have come up to Jesus from the bottom of the boat on the surface of the sea.
The 6 words of the third phrase are tangent to the three triangles tangent to the four men submerged in the sea as if they were fish. The two nets are tangent to the 2 triangles holding Simon and Andrew. The two nets are also tangent to center triangle that is tangent to the men under the sea. All 9 words are tangent to the two nets, the six triangles holding Jesus and his disciples, the boat, and the sea holding the 4 men. The 14 words promised Simon and Andrew that Jesus would make them fishers of men, a promise he has kept for two thousand years. The fourteen word composition was perfectly designed to produce two nested diagrams and to keep ambiguity and clutter to a minimum.

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