Mark 9:47 meaning and explanation
And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,
Mark 9:47, Berean Standard Bible
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Jesus is speaking to His disciples in Capernaum, continuing a series of sayings about radical seriousness toward sin. The Greek word for hell here is Gehenna, the valley outside Jerusalem associated with destruction.
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