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Mk 8:27a ... And Jesus and his disciples went out into the villages of Cesarea of Phillipi.

Verse 27 has two sentences containing three phrases and 30 words. The first phrase contains these 14 narrator words ... Kai eksēlthen ho Iēsous kai hoi mathētai autou eis tas kōmas Kaiareias tēs Filippou (And went out the Jesus and the disciples of him into the villages of Cesarea of Phillipi).

The 14 narrator words are top down. Cesarea Phillipi, the capital city of Herod, was located north of Bethsaida. Jesus and the disciples had to walk about two days on the road (the way) to get there. Mark does not record any story of Jesus arriving in Cesarea Phillipi, the main point of the story is to go through the village and be on "the way." The underlying diagram for the above text shows why Jesus didn't want the blind man of Bethsaida to go into the "village" in the previous verse. The cured blind man would be in the way of the 8 disciples leaving the village. Now draw Jesus and the first 4 disciples entering the villages of Cesarea Phillipi. The diagram shows Jesus and the disciples at two different times, leaving Bethsaida and entering Cesarea Phillipi. The diagram shows Phillip at the entrance of his villages.

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