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Mk 4:4a ... "And it-came-about in the sowing, some (seeds) indeed fell beside the way, ..."

Verse 4 has 4 phrases and 18 dialog words. The 1st and 2nd phrases have these 11 words, ... Kai egeveto en tō speirein, ho men epesen para tēn hodon [And it-occurred in the sowing, some indeed fell beside the way].

The 11 dialog words are top down. The 2 words "ho men" (some indeed) each have these understood helping words [(during)-which ~ some-(seeds)] that give sense to their phrases. The 2 word term "hay hodos" (the way, the road) has a gematria value of 352 units and eight overlapping circles with that diameter fill the space between Jesus and "the land" below. This part of the verse poses a geometry challenge on how to "sow seeds" (the word = 443) so that they fall "beside the way" (meaning tangent to it). The diagram shows that if 30 seeds are drawn, offset by half a seed, inside the road, 10 seeds are automatically tangent to the outline of "the way" and to the sides of four equilateral triangles drawn behind the road.

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