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Mk 1:44a ... And he says to him, ... "See that you say nothing ~ to no-one, ..."

Verse 44 has 5 phrases containing 25 words. The first 2 phrases contain these 3 narrator and 4 dialog words ... Kai legei autō, Hora mēdeni, mēden eipēs [And he says to him, ... "See (that) you say to no-one nothing," ...].

The 7 words are are top down. The following phrases of verse 44 is a set of instructions to the man Jesus cured of leprosy on how they can both prove to the witnesses and the Jewish community that they are cleansed of leprosy. The two pronouns in "autō, mēden" (to him, to no-one) are ambiguous because the speakers and recipients are not named. The diagram shows either Jesus or the cured leper could speak to two of the four witnesses or some other unnamed person if they so wished.

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