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Mk 4:9 ... And he-said, ... "Who has ears to-hear let-him-hear!"

Verse 9 has two phrases containing these 2 narrator and 5 dialog words ... Kai elegen, ... "Hos echei hōta, akouein akouetō" (And he said, ... "Who has ears to hear let him hear")!

The 7 words are top down. Verses 1-8 were the first part of the parable. Verses 9-13 pose the challenge to solve it. The first 2 words "Kai elegen" (And he said) are tangent to the hands of Jesus. The three words "Hos echei hōta" (Who has ears) are virtually tangent to the face of a man. The last two words said by Jesus "akouein akouetō" (to hear let him hear) are tangent to two equilateral triangles each holding an inscribed circle representing the man's "sense of hearing."

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