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Mk 6:42b ... And 'they-were-stuffed-full.'

The 2nd phrase has these 2 narrator words, ... kai exortasthēsan (and they-were-stuffed-full).

The 2 words are inscribed visually tangent to the circle inscribed inside the six green rectangles and the orange rectangle representing the 5000 men. The verb "exortasthesan" (they were stuffed full of fodder, aortive passive 3rd pers plural) is derived from xortos (grass). This word alludes back to the term "xlorō xortō" (green grass) from verse 6:39. Since grain comes from a grass, and loaves of bread are made from grain, it follows that the 5000 men should be drawn stuffed full of 'loaves of bread' (artoi, 481). The diagram shows the 5000 men "stuffed full" of the bread Jesus "broke" for them. The 5000 men and the 21 stuffed full loaves are also tangent to the two blades of grass. The computed area of a rectangle (91.86)(53.59) enclosing the 21 loaves is 98.45% of the area of the rectangle representing the 5,000 men. The location on the two words and the "stuffed full" imagery of the text matches the imagery of the diagram.

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