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Mk 15:42a ... And already having-become evening, since it-was-(the) Preparation, ...

Verse 42 has 3 phrases and 10 narrator words. The 1st and 2nd phrases have these 7 words ... Kai ēdē opsias genomenēs, epei en paraskeue [And already evening having become, since it was (the) Preparation, ...].

The 7 words are bottom up the sides and top down the center. The Greek word opsias means a time "late in the day," from hours 9 to 12 (3 to 6 pm). The Greek word "paraskeuē" is "preparation." To this day in Greece it is still the name for Friday. Since the Torah says one cannot light a fire or cook on the Sabbath, the meals are prepared the day before. This is why the Hebrews gathered two days of manna in the wilderness on the day before Sabbath.

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