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Mk 4:8a ... "And others fell into the earth the ideal, ..."

Verse 8 has 8 phrases and 24 dialog words. The 1st phrase has these 8 words, ... kai alla epesen eis tēn gēn tēn kalēn ("And others fell into the earth the ideal, ...").

The 8 dialog words are top down from the hands of Jesus to the rhombus of the ideal earth. The 2 words "kai alla" (and others, plural), refers to three "other seeds" to replace the ones that were "choked together" in the "thorn-bushes." The sign of "the ideal" is a superlative abstract noun which by convention is an intensified double equilateral triangle, a rhombus. The six words "epesen eis tēn gēn tēn kalēn" (fell into the earth the ideal) is tangent to a rhombus the color of an ideal soil. The diagram shows three other seeds that have fallen into this "ideal earth" tangent to the sign of 3 "no fruits" from the three "thorn-bushes" in the previous diagram. Watch how the seeds (words) step up in size into fruit and then bear more seeds in the diagrams that follow.

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