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Mk 4:29a ... "Yet whenever offers itself the fruit, ..."

Verse 29 has two phrases containing 13 dialog words. The 1st phrase has these 5 words, ... otan de paradoi ho karpos ("Whenever yet offers itself the fruit, ...").

The 5 dialog words are top down from the hands of Jesus to the hands of mankind. The 2 words "ho karpos" (the fruit) are in the nominative case (the subject of the sentence). The 2 words "de paradomi" (yet offers itself) are the predicate of what 'the fruit' is doing. The verb "paradomi" comes from the preposition "para" (close-beside) and the verb "didomi" (to give, to permit, to offer, to hand over). Verse 29 showed how the man sprouted from seed just like the fruit. This represents the cycle of life and death for "the seed" in the "Kingdom of God." The head and body of the man are congruent with the 2 circles of fruit held in his hands. The dialog words of "the fruit," the 1480 sized circles of "karpos" (fruit), and the hands of the man all intersect at a common point. The reader should now see that mankind is "the fruit" and whenever "the fruit offers itself" (becomes ripe with age) it must be "harvested."

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