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Mk 4:31a ... "Like a seed of mustard, which when it is sown on the earth, ..."

Verse 31 has 3 phrases and 18 dialog words. The 1st and 2nd phrases contain these 9 words ... hōs kokkō sinapeōs hos hotan sparē epi tēs gēs (Like a seed of mustard, which when it is sown on the earth, ... ).

The 9 dialog words are top down. The size of "a seed of mustard" was first seen in phrase 4:14: "The one sowing (seeds) sows "ho logos" (the word). The sign of the understood word "a seed of mustard" is a circle with a circumference equal to its gematria value of 443 units. In first century Palestine, the mustard seed was the smallest seed sown by farmers. Ten mustard seeds fit inside the hexagon. One "mustard seed" fits between the first 4 words. Another mustard seed fits tangent to the last three words "epi tēs gēs" (on the earth) and the sign of the earth.

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