9:44

There is a textual issue here. Mark 9:44 was added in some of the later Greek manuscripts. It repeats Mark 9:48. It is good to include this verse only as a footnote, as many English versions do.

Here is an example footnote:

Only some of the later Greek manuscripts include 9:44, which reads: where “their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.”

If the major language version in your area includes this verse in the text, you may want to include it in brackets. The New American Standard Bible does this.

If you put 9:44 in a footnote, here are several ways to number the verses:

• Put the number 44 after the number 43. For example:

43–44…where the fire never goes out. 45And if your foot…

• Put in the number 44 after the last word of 9:43, and have the footnote marker after it. For example:

43…where the fire never goes out. 44 ‡ 45And if your foot…

• Do not include the number 44. For example:

43…where the fire never goes out. 45And if your foot…

• Put the number 44 at the beginning of 43d. For example, the New Jerusalem Bible says:

43And if your hand should be your downfall, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life crippled, than to have two hands and go to hell, into the fire that 44can never be put out.

For notes on how to translate “where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched,’ ” see 9:48a and 9:48b.

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