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Mk 10:31b ... "and the last ones first ones."

The second phrase has these 4 dialog words, ... "kai hoi eschtoi prōtoi" ("and the last ones first ones").

The 4 dialog words are top down. The 2 words "eschtoi prōtoi" (last ones first ones) is tangent to the 3 white triangles now holding the 3 disciples who were the "last ones" in Diagram 31a1. John, James, and Simon the Stone are now "the first ones." The nine disciples who were first have now been sent to the bottom of the graph, which makes them the current "last ones." Mark, the gospel author, will next have Jesus make his third prophesy of death in verses 32-34. Then John and James will become ambitious and try to use their position as "first ones" to ask Jesus for a special favor.

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