Mark 9:43

9:43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have ¹  two hands and go into hell, ²  to the unquenchable fire.

Mark 15:46

15:46 After Joseph ³  bought a linen cloth ⁴  and took down the body, he wrapped it in the linen and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock. ⁵  Then ⁶  he rolled a stone across the entrance ⁷  of the tomb.

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¹ tn Grk “than having.”

² sn The word translated hell is “Gehenna” (γέεννα, geenna), a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew words ge hinnom (“Valley of Hinnom”). This was the valley along the south side of Jerusalem. In OT times it was used for human sacrifices to the pagan god Molech (cf. Jer 7:31; 19:5-6; 32:35), and it came to be used as a place where human excrement and rubbish were disposed of and burned. In the intertestamental period, it came to be used symbolically as the place of divine punishment (cf. 1 En. 27:2, 90:26; 4 Ezra 7:36). This Greek term also occurs in vv. 45, 47.

³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Joseph of Arimathea) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn The term σινδών (sindwn) can refer to a linen cloth used either for clothing or for burial.

⁵ tn That is, cut or carved into an outcropping of natural rock, resulting in a cave-like structure (see L&N 19.25).

⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁷ tn Or “to the door,” “against the door.”