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| 14a - 24b | 25a 25b | 26a 26b | 27a 27b | 28a 28b 28c | 29a 29b 29c | Mk 9:26a ... And having cried out and greatly convulsed (him), it came out.
Verse 26 has two sentences containing 16 words. The first sentence has these 6 narrator words ... Kai kraksas kai polla sparaksas eksēlthen [And having cried out and greatly convulsed (him), out it came]. The 6 narrator words are bottom up. Verse 26 is a flashback to the previous verse to supply additional detail about how it "came out." The Unclean Spirit along with the child had to come out from the bottom of the graph in order to give the child enough room to be convulsed, and cry out. The unsaid word "auton" (him), the convulsing boy, is understood. The pronoun "it" meant the "Unclean Spirit" and the boy. Because it was mute, it could only "cry out" (kraxan) through the vocal chords of the little boy. The diagram shows the Unclean Spirit obeyed the order to come out from the bottom of the graph. But the little boy also had to come out of the Unclean Spirit so he could greatly cry out. The reader fills in the blanks from the rest of the verse and concludes the child was seriously injured from being "polla sparaksas" (greatly convulsed). 9:25b < Verses > 9:26b |