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Mk 6:44 ... And were the-ones having-eaten the loaves five-thousand men.

Verse 44 has 8 narrator words in this order, ... kai ēsan hoi fagontes tous artous pentakischilioi andes (And were the ones having eaten the loaves five thousand men).

The 8 words are top down and visually tangent to the square with the area of 5000 units that represents the 5000 men. The words "tous artous" (the loaves) are tangent to the square holding the basket of bread. The geometric solution is now complete. Alternating between a graph scale of 888 and 8880, the loaves were broken and the fish divided among everyone, the leftover loaves and fish fill twelve baskets, and the number of people (50x100) in each of seven symposiums was 5,000. Mark will later chide the disciples (and you the reader) for their forgetfullness and mental clarity regarding the allegorical nature of his parable when he writes: "They had not understood the incident of the loaves. On the contrary, their hearts were hardened" (Mk 6:52). Mark will be much more blunt about the allegorical nature of his two feeding stories after Jesus later feeds a crowd of four thousand people. That one will also be as nice as this one.

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