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Mk 15:6 ... Down at-that festival was-let-go to-them one bound-one for-whom they-begged.

Verse 6 has these 9 narrator words ... Kata de heortēn apeluen autois hena desmion hon parētounto (Down at that Festival was-let-go to-them one bound-one for-whom they-begged).

The 9 narrator words are top down. The Festival in question was the Passover Festival, the mass release of the Jewish Nation who were bound into slavery from Egypt. For the Romans to release one Jewish prisoner at the choice of the crowd by most gospel readers was a believable custom. This prior year flashback diagram shows a "bound Jew" released on Pilate's command to the crowd below. Nine was the perfect number of words to be tangent from the face of Pilate, then to the prisoner released inside the festival grounds, then to fill the Festival and terminate in two words tangent to the crowd that had to beg Pilate to let him go. How could the perfect fit of the previous verses, this verse, and the verses to come be a coincidence?

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