Jonah 4:7

4:7 So God sent ¹  a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.

Mark 9:44-48

9:44 [[EMPTY]] ²  9:45 If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have ³  two feet and be thrown into hell. 9:46 [[EMPTY]] ⁴  9:47 If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out! ⁵  It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have ⁶  two eyes and be thrown into hell, 9:48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.

¹ tn Or “appointed.” The verb מָנָה (manah) in the Piel stem means “to send, to appoint” (Ps 61:8; Jonah 2:1; 4:6-8; Dan 1:5, 10-11; HALOT 599 s.v. מנה 2; BDB 584 s.v. מָנָה).

² tc Most later mss have 9:44 here and 9:46 after v. 45: “where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched” (identical with v. 48). Verses 44 and 46 are present in A D Θ Ë¹³ Ï lat sy^p,h, but lacking in important Alexandrian mss and several others (א B C L W Δ Ψ 0274 ˹ 28 565 892 2427 pc co). This appears to be a scribal addition from v. 48 and is almost certainly not an original part of the Greek text of Mark. The present translation follows NA²⁷ in omitting the verse number, a procedure also followed by a number of other modern translations.

³ tn Grk “than having.”

⁴ tc See tc note at the end of v. 43.

⁵ tn Grk “throw it out.”

⁶ tn Grk “than having.”