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Mk 4:1a ... And again he-began to-teach beside the sea.

Verse 4:1 contains 4 phrases and 33 narrator words. The 1st phrase has these 7 words, ... Kai palin ērksato didaskein para tēn thalassan (And again he-began to-teach beside the sea).

The 7 narrator words are top down from the center. This entire parable is extremely tricky. All abstract nouns by convention, such as "a teaching," are equilateral triangles. However the sign for this word is two equilateral triangles because Jesus always teaches in parables which is another abstract noun. Jesus is teaching two different crowds in verse 1. He "begins" his teaching with two baskets of bread, one for his disciples, and one for the other crowd in verse 2.

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