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Mk 9:18a ... "And where ever him down it takes, it breaks him, ..."

Verse 18 has six phrases and 26 dialog words said by the father. The first two phrases contain these 7 words in this order, ... Kai hopou ean auton katalabē hressei auton ("And where ever him down-it-takes, it breaks him, ...").

The 7 dialog words are bottom up. The following diagrams are flashbacks to a time in the child's past. The 2 words "ean auton" (ever him) are tangent to the little boy. The verbs "katalabē" (down it takes) and "hressei" (it breaks) are tangent to the Unclean Spirit. The diagram shows the "Unclean Spirit" has taken the boy down to the center of the graph and shook him left and right. On the diagram it appears the boy is in two places at once and he is therefore metaphorically "broken in two." The gospel narration is describing two versions of reality, a real life historical parable and a gematria diagram. Both are true, the parable and the diagram. The next three diagrams in this verse will show additional versions of how this Unclean Spirit "breaks" this little boy and "takes him down."

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