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Mk 14:22d ... "Take! This is the body of me."

The 5th and 6th phrases have these 6 dialog words, ... Labete, touto estin to sōma mou ("Take! This is the body of me").

The 6 dialog words are clockwise. The word "Labete" (Take) is a command; the 5 words "touto estin to sōma mou" (This is the body of me) is a statement. The 2 words "Labete touto" (take this) refers to the basket of bread, the next 4 words (it is the body of me) equates the bread to the body of Jesus, a metaphore for the anointed body of Christ. The 2 words "Labete mou" (take of me) followed by "this is the body" again links the the bread to the body of Jesus. Euclid, who came before Jesus said "two things equal to another thing are equal to each other." The basket of bread, Jesus, and "the words" are all tangent to each other. Mark told us twice in verse 2:19 that "the sons of the bridal chamber are not able, in which the bridegroom is with them, to fast." Jesus is the "bread of life." The command to "Take this bread of me," meaning "to eat it," is a way to make Jesus be a part of their own body through communion, knowing that Jesus is "the word," and that whatever he says happens.

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