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Mk 12:41b ... he saw how the crowd casts copper into the treasury.

The 2nd phrase has these 9 narrator words, ... etheōrei pōs ho oxlos ballei xalkon eis to gazofulakion (he saw how the crowd casts copper into the treasury).

The 9 narrator words are top down in a mirror-image tangent to the mirror-image of the treasury. In order for Jesus to "better see" the "coppers and the treasury" he stands up. The text says "etheorei" (to gaze on something in the minds eye to analyze it). By convention, silver or copper coins are half the size of a Jesus (888) circle enclosed inside of a container made from 1480 vesicas. Jesus sees the rich ones cast in twice as much as the ones not as rich. Jesus also sees the crowd can cast copper coins into the treasury by speach or thought. Who has the ability to do that? Of course, the scribes, they can draw!

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