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Mk 15:33a ... And having-become a-sixth ~ hour, ...

Verse 33 has 3 phrases containing 13 narrator words. The 1st phrase has these 4 narrator words ... Kai genomenēs hōras ektēs (And having-become hour a-sixth, ...).

The 4 narrator words are bottom up from the base of the cross to the top. The text uses an indefinite construction for the time which shows the passage of time for this action has not concluded. It takes seven white christ circles of time to elapse from the bottom of the hexagram to the sixth hour on the top. It only takes 4 words rising from the bottom of the cross to the top where the word for six matches the hour six. For the Roman clock, dawn was hour zero and high noon was hour six, the brightest time of the day. The diagram shows Mark purposely limited this phrase to 4 words with this diagram in mind, rather than by coincidence.

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