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Mk 6:37a ... The (Jesus) but answered, he-said to-them, ... "Give to-them yourselves (something) to-eat!"

Verse 37 has 6 phrases containing 8 narrator and 13 dialog words. The 1st through 3rd phrases have these 5 narrator and 4 dialog words, ... Ho de apokpitheis eipen autois, ... Dote autois humeis fagein [The (Jesus) but answered, he-said to-them, ... "Give to-them yourselves (something) to-eat")!

The 9 words are top down from Jesus to the disciples. This entire story requires a two scale graph that simultaneously represents both Jesus numbers (8880 and 888). This way, signs generated on either graph will fit tangent to each other on the same graph. The twelve are now back in the same "place" as they were in diagram 6:35b. The command to "give themselves" to the "crowd" so they can "eat" is a hint on how to solve the riddle. The twelve disciples need twelve "representative individuals" from the crowd to help them "feed the geometric object" that represents the "number of the crowd."

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