Mark 9:48 meaning and explanation
where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’
Mark 9:48, Berean Standard Bible
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Jesus is speaking to His disciples in Capernaum, warning them about causing little ones to stumble and about the seriousness of sin. Verse 48 quotes Isaiah 66:24, the closing verse of that prophecy, which pictures the dead outside Jerusalem with worms that do not die and fire that is not quenched.
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