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Mt 4:4a ... The-one but having-answered said, ... "It-has-been-written, not by bread alone will-live the man, ..."

Verse 4 has 4 phrases and 20 words. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd phrases have these 4 narrator and 8 dialog words ... Ho de apokritheis eipen, Gegraptai, ouk ep artō monō zēsetai ho anthrōpos (The-one but having-answered said, ... "It-has-been-written, not by bread alone will-live the man, ...").

The 4 narrator and the 8 dialog words are horizontal left to right, tangent to Jesus who stands on 16 equilateral triangles that each hold 8 circles with a circumference of 481 units, the gematria value of the Greek word meaning "loaves of bread" (artoi = 481). The Old Testament source text reads: "God let you be afflicted with hunger to show you that not by bread alone does man live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord" (Deut 8:3). The 3 key words are breads (artoi 481), life (zōē 815), and man. The mountain holds 128 breads (artoi 481), the two white triangles (each side = 815) holds a man. And the mountain holds exactly 9 triangles of life.

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