Mark 9:48 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 9:48

where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’

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ASV

where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

KJV

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

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Commentary

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Gregory of Nyssa

ADDRESS ON RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION 40 (395)

Nor, too, does anything which afflicts the senses here equal in torment the future life of sinners. Even if we denote some of those torments by terms familiar to us here, the difference is not slight. When you hear the word "fire," you have been taught to think of it differently from ordinary fire, since a new factor is added. For that fire is not quenched, while experience has devised many ways to quench the fire we know. And there is a great difference between fire which is quenched and that which cannot be put out.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. This is repeated again, not only to assure the truth of the thing, but to raise the attention of the mind unto it, and fix an awful impression upon it: the Persic version renders it, "from whence thou shall never find redemption": there is no redemption from hell, as Origen and others have thought.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

See the notes at Mat 18:7-9. Millstone. See Mat 18:6. Mar 9:44-46 Their worm - This figure is taken from Isa 66:24. See the notes at that passage. In describing the great prosperity. of the kingdom of the Messiah, Isaiah says that the people of God “shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men who have transgressed against God.” Their enemies would be overcome. They would be slain. The people of God would triumph.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅπου	hopou	where	G3699 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
σκώληξ	skōlēx	worm	G4663 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
τελευτᾷ	teleuta	dies	G5053 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πῦρ	pur	fire	G4442 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
σβέννυται.	sbennutai	is quenched.’	G4570 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 25:41
Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
leads to
- 2 Peter 2:4
  For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
- Jude 1:6–7
  And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:9
  They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
- Matthew 13:42
  And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Through
Isaiah 66:24
“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a…
leads to
- Isaiah 14:11
  Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.
- Revelation 14:10–11
  he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and…
- Daniel 12:2
  And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15–16
  who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,