A wide gate leading into the kingdom

Like the yellow brick road in the land of Oz, there is only one wide gate in the tax-collector's book. In fact, Matthew is the only writer in the Greek Testament to use the word "wide" and that is once in the sermon of Rabbi Jesus.

"Sheeps" is exclusive to the 666s, "moth" to the 333s and "demons" to the 999s (as is "wolves" to the 555s and "dogs" to the 888s). The word "city" is exclusive to the 666s. Remarkably, there seem to be two cities: one right, one left.

"And also to thee, ancient ones, to a Lord is to earth, a city; one thing out of was said the right one (city) | καὶ καὶ σοι, ἀρχαίοις, κυρίῳ ἐστὶν γῇ, πόλις; ἕν ἐκ ἐρρέθη τὴν δεξιὰν." "And a garment, one; the neighbor hostile | καὶ ἱμάτιον, ἕν; τὸν πλησίον ἐχθρόν." "To ones loving also do ye, and same ye shall become; of Thee the left one (city) | ἀγαπῶντας καὶ ποιεῖτε, καὶ αὐτὸ ἔσεσθε; σοῦ ἡ ἀριστερά."

In the messages, the noun "eye" is used twice to the 333s, thrice to the 999s, and four times to the 666s. Unlike the absence of God in messages to the 444s, 777s and 999s, the one to the 666s has this word twice, including a question by Rabbi Jesus directed to GOD. This rare form in the Greek is used to distinguish the abstract deity from the incarnated form (anthropomorphism).

ὁ ὀφθαλμός καὶ, θεῷ λέγω:

τί ἢ πίητε, τῷ σώματι ὑμῶν ἐνδύσησθε; συνάγουσιν ὑμῶν.

"The eye also, to GOD I say: 'What rather ye may drink, by the body of You ye may clothe; they (thieves) lead with You.'" The next clause is about "an oven" (twice in the Greek Testament, shared with Luke 12:28), and then we read: "The God thus sees; a heavenly one, that first one, to the righteousness he shall be toward-put. | ὁ θεὸς οὕτως οἶδεν; οὐράνιος, ὅτι πρῶτον τὴν δικαιοσύνην προστεθήσεται."

Now we turn to two obscure sub-clauses, each six words, that on the textual surface are vague but numerically are very enlightening.

In clauses identifying a right and a left city, there is this parenthetical afterthought: "And a garment, one; the neighbor hostile." The first of three times "the neighbor" is used is book word 2388 and it is also word 44 of the coded message. Seven times the word "hostile" (English "enemy") is used; first as word 66 (444), and the next time in the next verse (5:44). Used only once, the word describing the city on the left is book word 2544.

Immediately preceding the clause concerning the treasure of the thieves is this: "The father of You to the trespasses of You, but not fasting (father), the face disappears | ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν τὰ παραπτώματα ὑμῶν, δὲ μὴ νηστεύων, τὸ πρόσωπόν ἀφανίζει." Matthew uses the noun "face" sparingly (ten times) and the verb "to disappear" quite liberally (three of the five times in the Greek Testament). "Face" is word 400 (444) and elsewhere "the body" is 44 (444), and "the eye" is 244 (888), as well as 800 (444). The verb "disappears" is word 88 of the coded message.

A process of concoction/decoction may be helpful to understand these readings. Writers encrypt a text of words by numerical patterns which are then used to "read" hidden messages (encrypt/decrypt).

Let us reconsider the nine words to the 999s concerning treasure: "But a head, to the face of thee, one upon treasure: a heart | δὲ κεφαλὴν, τὸ πρόσωπόν σου, ἕν ἐπὶ θησαυρός: καρδία." Heart and head are feminine; face is neuter. Treasure is masculine but "one" is neuter, therefore, a face is upon this treasure and, according to Luke 12:34, this is where "the heart" shall come to be. Luke also writes enigmatically about the heart of a certain woman that the Lord opened in the first of the "we" sections (Acts 16:10-17). In the book between Luke's books, John writes rather suggestively the possibility of Rabbi Jesus going to "the diaspora" of the Greeks, to teach the Greeks (John 7:35).

In a book of 18,318 words, there are eighteen words with numbers ending in 666. Three consecutive words near the middle of the book that are separated by a thousand words are: Mouth (στόμα) 6666, him (αὐτοῦ) 7666, and God (θεοῦ) 8666. Coincidentally, "the mouth speaks | τὸ στόμα λαλεῖ" shares identical chapter and verse numbers as the above "treasure" quote from Luke. Characteristically, the first noun to be marked by this mysterious number is the sixth word of 2:13 (κυρίου), the second is the thirteenth word of 5:1 (αὐτῷ), and the last noun is the thirteenth word of 26:56 (μαθηταὶ). It is the 66th time that noun is used and the 16,666th word of Matthew's masterpiece.