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Mk 15:32a ... "The Christ the King of-Israel, step-down now from the cross, so-that we-may-see and believe." ... (gv = 10,225)

Verse 32 has 4 phrases containing 21 words. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd phrases have these 14 dialog words ... ho Christos, ho basileus Israēl, katabatō nun apo tou staurou hina idōmen kai pisteusōmen ("The Christ the King of-Israel, step-down now from the cross, so-that we-may-see and believe.").

Diagram 1: The 14 dialog words are top down from the Chief Priests to Jesus and the Scribes.

Diagram 2: The 14 Greek words have these gematria values: o (70), Xristos (1480), o (70), basileus (848), Israēl (349), katabatō (1425), nun (500), apo (151), tou (770), staurou (1471), ina (61), idōmen (909), kai (31), pisteusōmen (2090). The total of the 14 words is 10,225 units which extends the outline of the old cross to the sides of the diagram so that Jesus can step down.

The last 4 words "hina idōmen kai pisteusōmen" (so that we may see and believe) is a gematria command to construct a diagram that allows the King of Israel to step down from his Star of David on the cross to the bottom of the graph. The gematria value of the mocking words said by the Chief Priests (10,225) construct a cross 99.75% as large as the cross made from the 16 mocking words (10,251) of “the ones passing by." The size difference is invisible to the eye. The hypothetical diagram shows that Jesus had the power of the word to do whatever was said by anyone. He could make the the chief priests see and the scribes believe if he so wished. For the reader of this gematria gospel commentary, seeing is believing.

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