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Mk 9:3b ... of such a kind a bleacher on the earth is not able to whiten.

The second phrase has these 9 narrator words ... hoia gnafeus epi tēs gēs ou dunatai autōs leukanai (of such a kind a bleacher upon the earth not is able thus to whiten).

The 9 narrator words are bottom up further describing his garments. The 5 words "hoia gnafeus epi tēs gēs" (of such a kind a bleacher upon the earth) are tangent to a bleacher man who whitens garments standing on the green earth. The 2 narrator words "ou dunatai" (not is able) lie on top of two grey equilateral triangles the "bleacher on the earth" could not make white. The 2 narrator words "autōs leukanai" (thus to whiten) are tangent to the rhombus holding the transfigured Jesus who makes his garments in the shape of a rhombus gleaming white. The gospel of Matthew said the face of Jesus was the source of the light for his garments which “shone like the sun” (Mt 17:2). Luke’s version suppressed the comparison of Jesus with the sun by saying the face of Jesus "became different" and his garments (the rhombus) "gleaming white" (Lk 9:29). The next diagram will take the focus off the bleacher and put it back on the transfigured Jesus using gematria!

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