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Mk 2:23a ... And it happened to him in the Sabbaths, passing by through the sowings, ...

Verse 23 has four phrases of 20 words. The first two phrases have these 10 words, ... Kai egeneto auton en tois sabbasin paraporeuesthai dia tōn sporimōn (And it happened to him in the Sabbaths, passing by through the grainfields, ...).

The 10 words are placed in two pairs of five words. The first set of 6 words "Kai egeneto auton en tois Sabbaths" (And it happened to him in the Sabbaths) are top down from the top. The third word "auton" (to him) is tangent to the head of Jesus. tangent to bottom equilateral triangle representing the "sabbaths." The sixth word "sabbasin" (Sabbaths) is tangent to the center of the bottom equilateral triangle, the bottom of the Sabbaths. The second set of 4 words "paraporeuesthai dia tōn sporimōn" (passing by through the grainfields) is bottom up. The last 2 words "tōn sporimōn" (the grainfields) are tangent to bottom two Sun-flowers. The diagram shows Jesus in one of the two Sabbaths after he passed through four fields sown with Heads of Grain on his way to the top of the graph. Jesus is not breaking the Sabbath in any way.

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