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Mk 11:10a ... "Blessed, the coming kingdom of-the father of-us, David."

Verse 10 has four phrases and 12 dialog words. The first three phrases have these 8 words, ... "Eulogēmenē, hē erxomenē basileia tou patros hēmōn, Dauid" ("Blessed, the coming kingdom of the father of us, David").

The 8 dialog words are bottom up. The first four words "Eulogēmenē, hē erxomenē basileia" (Blessed, the coming Kingdom) fills the bottom half of a kingdom. The 3 words "patros hēmōn, Dauid" (David, father of us) fills the top half. The last word "Dauid" is tangent to the image of David. The diagram now reveals what the people leading and following were really thinking when they shouted these words. If the words were directed at Jesus riding on the invisible Colt, the crowd saw Jesus as a Davidic Messiah. However, the words could also have been a common prayer or a wish for a messiah, not directed at anyone in particular. Jesus might just have been passing through the crowd as those words were spoken. Ironically, the crowd's prayer was being answered but they were unaware that Jesus, their Lord and father, was already in their midst.

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