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Mk 10:18a ... Yet the Jesus said to him, ... "Why me do you call good?"

Verse 18 has five phrases and 16 words. The first two phrases have these 5 narrator and 4 dialog words, ... Ho de Iēsous eipen autō, ... "Ti me legeis agathon" (The yet Jesus said to him, ... "Why me do you call good").

The 5 narrator and 4 dialog words are top down. The name "Iēsous" is directly over the torso of Jesus. The 2 narrator words "said to him" are directly over and tangent to the 2 dialog words "Ti me" (Why me). The last 2 words "legeis agathon" (do you call good) are tangent to the white eqilateral triangle, the sign of the abstract noun "Good." When the rich youth saw Jesus was standing on top of the sign of "eternal life" he wanted what Jesus had and that is the reason he called him "Good Teacher"!! He wanted Jesus to teach him how to obtain this Life for himself. This verse puns around with the sign for "Good" and "Life."

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