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Mk 12:3a ... "And having seized him they skinned (him), ..."

Verse 3 has two phrases and 7 dialog words. The 1st phrase has these 4 dialog words ... Kai labontes auton edeiran ["And having seized him they skinned (him), ..."].

The 4 dialog words are top down. The text takes the noun "dero" (skin) and makes it into a verb "edeiran" (skinned) as from the act of whipping or flogging a person to stripe the skin on his back with cuts and welts. The equilateral triangles behind the farmers and the slave can also be seen as a skin. The skin behind the earth farmers is the color of earth. The diagram shows the slave does not have his white triangle behind him because the earth farmers "skinned him."

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