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Mk 12:16b ... and he says to them, ... "Of whom (is) the image this and the inscription?"

The 2nd and 3rd phrases have these 3 narrator and 7 dialog words, ... Kai legei autois, Tinos ē eikōn autē kai ē epigrafē [and he says to them, "Of whom (is) the image this and the inscription"]?

The 10 words are top down. Jesus takes their question and turns it around on them. The 3 narrator words are tangent to the body of Jesus and the bottom of the triangle holding his body. The 7 dialog words are tangent to Jesus and the triangle to two triangles and the outline holding the denarius. Jesus now sets his own trap.

The obverse image of the denarius was a bust of the emperor Tiberius' (14-37 A.D.) wearing a laurel wreath, a sign of his divinity. The counter clockwise inscription read TI(BERIUS) CAESAR DIVI AUG(USTI) F(ILIUS) AUGUSTUS, meaning "Tiberius Caesar, Divine Augustus, Son of Augustus" The reverse side showed Julia Augusta, the mother of Tiberius, sitting on a throne as the mother of a God. The counter clockwise inscription read PONTIF(EX) MAXIM(US), meaning "High Priest."

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