Mk 8:16 ... And they reasoned through before one another that they do not have loaves.

Verse 16 has these 8 narrator words in this inverted word order ... Kai dielogizonto pros allēlous hoti artous ouk exousin (And they reasoned through before one another that loaves not do they have).

The 8 narrator words are top down. The 4 words "hoti artous ouk exousin" (that loaves not do they have) do not point to the single loaf of bread the disciples have inside the boat but rather to the basket of loaves in the sea that might as well be there rather than back on land where they neglected to take them on board. At first this seems to be a foolish argument over the singular or plural version of the noun "bread." This diagram was solved by "reasoning through" (dialogizomai). The 11 disciples in vesica mode and one in face mode do not have "loaves of bread." They only have one loaf.

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