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Mk 5:39a ... And entering he-says to-them, "Why are-you-tumulting and crying?"

Verse 39 has 3 phrases containing 4 narrator and 10 dialog words. The first two phrases have these 4 narrator and 4 dialog words ... Kai eiselthōn legei autois, Ti thorubeisthe kai klaiete (And entering he-says to-them, "Why are-you-tumulting and crying?")?

The 8 words are top down. With seven people in the house in verse 5:38 there was no room for Jesus except on top. And since Jesus is God that's where he belongs unless the text says otherwise. The text never mentions the disciples again until Jesus throws everyone out. Therefore, if someone isn't mentioned in the text they don't have to be drawn. The only ones who Jesus can be talking to are Jairos, his wife, and his two mourners, the ones inside or tangent to the "tumult." The diagram shows the four dialog words fall exactly tangent to the base of the upside down semi-circle, the sign of the "tumult," holding the wife who is crying and the two mourners who are loudly wailing inside of it.

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