Mark 9:44-48

9:44 [[EMPTY]] ¹  9:45 If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have ²  two feet and be thrown into hell. 9:46 [[EMPTY]] ³  9:47 If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out! ⁴  It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have ⁵  two eyes and be thrown into hell, 9:48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.

[9:44]  ¹ 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.

[9:45]  ² tn Grk “than having.”

[9:46]  ³ tc See tc note at the end of v. 43.

[9:47]  ⁴ tn Grk “throw it out.”

[9:47]  ⁵ tn Grk “than having.”