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Mk 3:2a ... And they-were-watching him (to-see) if on the Sabbaths he-would-heal him, ...

Verse 2 has 2 phrases containing 11 narrator words. The 1st phrase has these 8 words, ... Kai paretēroun auton ei tois sabbasin therapeusei auton (And they-were-watching him (to-see) if on the Sabbaths he-would-heal him, ... ).

The 8 words are top down. This is a conditional if-then verse that imagines if or how Jesus might heal the man. The diagram shows the ones watching Jesus are the pharisees, the same ones from the previous story. The Greek word Sabbasin (dative, plural) means we are dealing with more than one Sabbath. They are watching to see if Jesus will do work on the Sabbath. The first two words of "tois sabbasin therapeusei auton" (the Sabbaths he will heal him) fall on the two signs of a Sabbath from diagram 3:1. The last two words are tangent to the dried hand of the afflicted man and to his Unclean Spirit.

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