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Mk 1:41a ... And having compassion, stretching out his hand he touched (it).

Verse 41 has two sentences containing 5 phrases and 12 words. The first sentence contains two phrases having these 7 narrator words, ... Kai splagchnistheis, ekteinas tēn cheira autou hepsato [And having compassion, stretching-out the hand of him he touched (it)].

The 7 narrator words are top down. The diagrams for verses 41a-42 show the 4th of 24 miracles Jesus performed in this gospel. The verb splagchnizomai is a colloquial expression for "having compassion." Compassion is an abstract noun, and by convention its sign is a white equilateral triangle. The two words "Kai splagchnistheis" (And having compassion) are tangent to the sign of "compassion." The 4 words "tēn cheira autou, hepsato" [the hand of him touched (it)] are tangent to the out-stretched hands of Jesus and to the "Unclean Spirit." The text doesn't say he touched the man. The only other thing Jesus could touch is the Unclean Spirit of Leprosy, a species much more virulent than an "Unclean Fever." According to the way Jesus subsequently acted, there must have been witnesses such as Jews and his disciples who would later record this miracle in the gospels.

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