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Mk 12:41c ... And many rich ones had cast (in) much.

The 3rd phrase has these 5 narrator words, ... kai polloi plousioi eballon polla [And many rich ones cast (in) much].

The 5 narrator words are top down. The text is ambiguous, it doesn't say how many rich ones or how much they cast in. Based on what we do know, the words "polloi plousioi" (many rich ones) are tangent to two rich scribes. Which scribes would be recently rich? How about the two scribes who just ate down the house of a poor widow in verse 12:40! And whose job was it to hang around the temple and the treasury all day to do the accounts and count the daily take? Of course, it was the scribes!! Now the geometer (the scribes or me) must do what the text commands, "cast much" copper into the treasury, as much as it will hold! The diagram shows that if the rich ones are generous, they can fill the treasury to its capacity of 15 copper coins, tangent to all three walls of the treasury! It seems as if these verses were composed looking at these very diagrams two thousand years ago!

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