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Mt 4:2 ... And having-fasted days forty and nights forty, afterwards he-hungered.

Verse 2 has 2 phrases containing these 9 narrator words ... Kai nēsteusas hēmeras tesserakonta kai nuktas tesserakonta, husteron epeinasen (And having-fasted days forty and nights forty, afterwards he-hungered).

The 9 narrator words are bottom up. By convention, the sign for units of time, like days and nights, are circles with the same size as the head (mind) of the person experiencing it. The first phrase of 7 words is tangent to the 80 interlocking Jesus sized circles (888) representing "forty days" and "forty nights." After fasting for 40 days, the body of Jesus has caved in from the sides. The 2 narrator words of phrase 2, "husteron epeinasen" (afterwards he hungered), are tangent to the face, body, and vesica-radius hunger void of Jesus. The Lord wedges a transparent hunger circle with his hands against the top of the forty nights.

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