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Mk 3:17c ... and he layed upon them a name, the Boanerges, which means "Sons of Thunder."

The fifth through seventh phrases have these 10 narrator words ... kai epethēken autois onoma ta Boanērges ho estin Uioi Brontēs (and he layed upon them a name, the Boanerges, which is "Sons of Thunder").

The 10 words are top down. The two words "ta Boanērges" (the Sons of Thunder) is a title of the two Zebedee brothers, John and James. The sign of "Brontēs" (thunder) is a dark sky coming close when one can begin to hear the sound of lightning. The above diagram shows the title was a drawing instruction of where to draw the thunder, the ten words, and the two brothers so that they are all tangent to each other. The 3 word term "kai epethēken onoma" (and he layed upon a name) identified the first sentence of the inclusio. The four word term "kai epethēken autois onoma" (and he layed upon to them a name) identifies the last sentence of the inclusio that brackets Jesus' inner circle of three disciples (Stone, John, and James).

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