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Mk 8:26b ... "You may not go into the village!"

The second phrase has these 5 dialog words ... Mēde eis tēn kōmēn eiselthēs (Not into the village may you go).

The 5 dialog words are top down. The diagram shows Jesus standing on top of the house. His 5 words and the 4 triangles block the cured man from leaving. The story ends with a mystery, why did Jesus order the man not to enter his village? The answer is a gematria sight gag. The sign for the words "tēn kōmēn" (the village) is the rectangle below the house. The house and the village have the same area. The cured man can't go there because eight disciples need to occupy that space in the next verse. To make sure he can't go there, the triangles holding the 5 word command of Jesus have dropped down in front of the cured man to keep him inside his house. Jesus will next cure Bartimeaus, a named blind man, who wants to be cured and to follow him on "the way" to Jerusalem.

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