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Mk 1:26a ... And having-convulsed him, the Unclean Spirit, ...

Verse 26 has 4 phrases and 14 narrator words. The first two phrases have these 7 text words ... Kai sparaksan auton, to pneuma to akatharton (And having convulsed him, the Spirit the Unclean, ...).

The 7 narrator words are bottom up. The Greek words are split in two phrases, one for the possessed man, the other for his Unclean Spirit. But with English, the subject goes before the predicate in one phrase to sound grammatical. Verse 26 only has narration to describe what happened to the possessed man and to the Unclean Spirit immediately after Jesus said "Be muzzled and come out of him!" Each phrase is a drawing instruction. The diagram shows that immediately after the Unclean Spirit was muted, it began to shake the man side to side so that he appeared to be going into convulsions. Perhaps the first Unclean Spirit was trying to kill the man but then Jesus immediately killed "it" (the Unclean Spirit) instead. The other "Unclean Spirit" has gone off to find another man to possess. The next 7 words will show and confirm the complete destruction of the first Unclean Spirit.

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