Mark 9:45-49

9:45 If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have ¹  two feet and be thrown into hell. 9:46 [[EMPTY]] ²  9:47 If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out! ³  It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have ⁴  two eyes and be thrown into hell, 9:48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched. 9:49 Everyone will be salted with fire. ⁵ 

[9:45]  ¹ tn Grk “than having.”

[9:46]  ² tc See tc note at the end of v. 43.

[9:47]  ³ tn Grk “throw it out.”

[9:47]  ⁴ tn Grk “than having.”

[9:49]  ⁴ tc The earliest mss ([א] B L [W] Δ 0274 Ë^1,13 28* 565 700 pc sy^s sa) have the reading adopted by the translation. Codex Bezae (D) and several Itala read “Every sacrifice will be salted with salt.” The majority of other mss (A C Θ Ψ [2427] Ï lat sy^p,h) have both readings, “Everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.” An early scribe may have written the LXX text of Lev 2:13 (“Every sacrifice offering of yours shall be salted with salt”) in the margin of his ms. At a later stage, copyists would either replace the text with this marginal note or add the note to the text. The longer reading thus seems to be the result of the conflation of the Alexandrian reading “salted with fire” and the Western reading “salted with salt.” The reading adopted by the text enjoys the best support and explains the other readings in the ms tradition.