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Mk 11:18a ... And the chief priests and the scribes heard.

Verse 18 has four sentences containing 24 gospel text words. The first sentence of 18a has 7 narrator words in this exact order ... Kai ēkousan hoi arxiereis kai hoi grammateis (And heard the chief priests and the scribes).

The 7 narrator words are top down. The focus is still on Jesus for the words he said in 17c. The diagram shows the last 6 dialog words Jesus said are tangent to the ears of the chief priests and scribes (17c: "You but have made it a cave of robbers"). The 7 narrator words (18a: "And heard the chief priests and the scribes") are tangent to the 6 dialog words the chief priests and the scribes heard. The 2 narrator words "the chief priests" are tangent to the chief priests through the first two dialog words the chief priests heard (17c: "you but"). The last 2 narrator words (18a: "the scribes") are tangent to the scribes through the last 2 dialog words the scribes heard (17c: "a cave of robbers").

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