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Mk 3:7 ... And the Jesus with the disciples of-him went-away before the sea, and a-great multitude from the Galilee followed, and from the Judea, ...

Verse 7 contains 3 phrases and these 22 narrator words ... Kai ho Iēsous meta tōn mathētōn autou anechōrēsen pros tēn thalassan, kai polu plēthos apo tēs Galilaias ekolouthēsev, kai apo tēs Ioudaias (And the Jesus with the disciples of-him went-away before the sea, and a-great multitude from the Galilee followed, and from the Judea, ...).

Diagram 1: The 22 words are top down. The diagram shows the first two phrases of 18 words fills the space between the seas. The 4 words from the third phrase fills the sea on the bottom of the graph. The 22 words fill the space between the bottom of the two seas.

Diagram 2: The diagram shows the 22 words as 22 men. Jesus goes away before the top sea, his first four disciples from the Sea of Galilee go away before the other sea. Galilee and Judea are the two large territories where Jesus had his ministry. Since Jerusalem is a walled city in Judea, the men from the city and the country-side can be seen as two different groups of men. His first 4 disciples, fishermen from the Sea of Galilee, are likewise a different group of men from all the other men from the land of Galilee. The verb anechōrēsen, from the preposition ana (up, into the midst) and the verb choreo (to leave space), is translated literally as "leave space into the midst." The sign of this "space" is 1/2 the area of the entire graph between the surface of the two seas that holds a "great multitude" of 18 generic men from the territories of the Galilee and Judea. The diagram shows Jesus, a great multitude of 18 men, and the first 4 disciples.

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