- Mark 9:44, 46
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- Mark 9:44, 46
- (KJV)
{44} Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched. {46} Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
- (1611 KJV)
{44} Where their worme dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched. {46} Where their worme dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
- (1587 Geneva Bible)
{44} Where their worme dyeth not, & the fire
neuer goeth out. {46} Where their worme dyeth not, & the fire neuer goeth
out.
- (1526 Tyndale)
{44} (Tyn) where there worme dyeth not and the
fyre never goeth oute. {46} where there worme dyeth not and the fyre never
goeth oute.
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- Counterfeit Versions
- (CEB) 44 & 46 Omitted
- (CEV) 44 & 46 Omitted
- (CSB) 44 & 46 Omitted
- (ERV) 44 & 46 Omitted
- (GNB) 44 & 46 Omitted
- (NIV) 44 & 46 Omitted
- (HCSB) 44 [where Their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.]
{46} [where Their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.
- (ESV) 44 & 46 Omitted
- (THE MESSAGE) 44 & 46 Omitted
- (NCV) 44 [In hell the worm does not die; the fire is never put out.] 46
[In hell the worm does not die; the fire is never put out.]
- (NLT) 44 & 46 Omitted
- (RSV) 44 & 46 Omitted
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- Some versions and their footnotes
- (NASV)
{44} [where THEIR WORM DOES NOT DIE, AND THE FIRE IS
NOT QUENCHED.] {46} [where THEIR WORM DOES NOT DIE, AND THE FIRE IS NOT
QUENCHED.]
- Footnotes
- Vv 44 and 46, which are identical to v 48, are not found in the early
mss
-
- (NKJV)
{44} where "Their worm does not die And the fire is
not quenched.'
{46} where "Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.'
- Footnotes
- 9:44 NU-Text omits this verse.
- 9:46 NU-Text omits the last clause of verse 45 and all of verse 46.
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- (1881 Revised Version)
44 & 46 Omitted
- Footnotes
- Verses 44 & 46 (which are identical with ver. 48) are omitted by the
best ancient authorities.
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- (1901 American Standard Version)
Verses 44 & 46 Omitted
- Footnotes
- Verses 44 & 46 (which are identical with ver. 48) are omitted by the
best ancient authorities.
-
- (New American Bible - Roman Catholic)
Verses 44 & 46 Omitted
- Footnote
- 44, 46 Not found in many manuscripts
-
- (New World Translation - Jehovah’s Witnesses)
Verses 44 & 46 are
omitted
- Footnote
- a
BC omit verse 44, which reads: ”Where their
maggot does not die and the fire is not put out,” as in AD.
aBC omit verse 46, which
reads: ”Where their maggot does not die and the fire is not put out,” as in
AD.
- Textus Receptus - Traditional Text
- {44} opou o skwlhx autwn ou teleuta kai to
pur ou sbennutai {46}
opou o skwlhx autwn ou teleuta kai to pur ou sbennutai
-
- Hort-Westcott - Critical Text
- Omitted
-
- Corrupted Manuscripts
- This verse is corrupted in the following manuscripts:
- Omits both Verse 44 and 46
- Aleph 01 - Sinaiticus -
Nineteenth Century Counterfeit
B 03 - Vaticanus - Fourth century
- C 04 - Ephraemi Rescriptus - Fifth century
- L 019 - Seventh century
- W 032 - Fourth/fifth century
- Delta 037 - Ninth century
- 1 (Minuscule) - Seventh century
- 28 (Minuscule) - Eleventh century
- 565 - (Minuscule) - Ninth century
- 892 - (Minuscule) - Ninth century
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- Manuscripts which agree with the Textus Receptus for this verse
- Contains Verse 44
- Byzantine Text (450-1450 A.D.)
- Stephanus (1550 A.D.)
- A 02 - Alexandrinus - Fifth century
- D 05 - Bezae Cantabrigiensis - Fifth century
- K 017 - Ninth century
- Theta 038 - Ninth century
- 700 - (Minuscule) Eleventh century
- 1010 - (Minuscule) - Twelfth Century
- 1241 - (Minuscule) - Twelfth century
-
- Contains Verse 46
- Byzantine Text (450-1450 A.D.)
- Stephanus (1550 A.D.)
- A 02 - Alexandrinus - Fifth century
- D 05 - Bezae Cantabrigiensis - Fifth century
- K 017 - Ninth century
- Theta 038 - Ninth century
- 13 (Minuscule) - Eighth century
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- Published Critical Greek Texts with Corruptions
- Omits Verse 44 & 46
- Tischendorf, Constantine - 1869
- Tregelles, Samuel - 1857 (in brackets or margin)
- Westcott and Hort - 1881
- Weiss, Bernhard - 1894
- Nestle - 1927 as revised in seventeenth edition in 1941
- Nestle-Aland - 1979 - Twenty Sixth Edition
- Nestle-Aland - 1993 - Twenty Seventh Edition
- United Bible Societies - 1983 - Fourth Edition
- Von Soden, Freiherr - 1902
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- Affected Teaching
- There are three verses which repeat themselves in this chapter and that
is Verses 44, 46, and 48. However, verses 44 & 46 have met its fate by being
removed from the Greek text. It is missing in Aleph and B and was therefore
left omitted by Hort & Westcott and today’s intellectual hit squads. These
two verses speak of the horrors of Hell and has been removed since the
Gnostics in the second century and the modern liberal unbelieving scholars
of today disbelieve in Hell. These two verses are part of the triple warning
the Lord Jesus Christ gave concerning our actions in life. God carried this
idea over from Isaiah 66:24:
(Isa 66:24 KJV) And they shall go
forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against
me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and
they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
-
- They speak of eternal damnation based upon the sinful life that people
lead. In verse 43 and 45, we read that the Lord Jesus is giving the warning
that we are to abandon anything which causes us to stumble and He uses the
hands and the feet as examples of two body members which can get us into
much trouble.
-
- (Prov 6:18 KJV) An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift in running to mischief,
-
- (Prov 6:17 KJV) A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that
shed innocent blood,
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- The admonition of the Lord is two-fold. First, He speaks to His children
and teaches them to avoid all sinful situations which will cause us to ruin
our lives. Secondly, He speaks to the unbelievers that all their actions are
sinful and need to be lopped off. The only way to use the hands and the feet
for good is for a person to become saved because the consequences will be
eternal Hell.
-
- Hort and Westcott and the 2nd century Gnostics believed in
shortening the text so what they have here is a triple warning by God that
Hell is very real and unless a person becomes saved, then they will go
there. Instead of keeping it in the text, they took out the first two verses
and left verse 48 intact. When we read the Bible, we can see that God
definitely uses repetition as a teacher. Let us take a look at an example:
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- (Psa 14:3 KJV) They are all gone aside, they are all together become
filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
- (Psa 53:3 KJV) Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether
become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
- (Rom 3:12 KJV) They are all gone out of the way, they are together
become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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- As we can see, here is an example of God repeating Himself three times
which means that God intentionally uses this method in His Word. What the
Gnostics have done is dammed themselves to Hell by subtracting from God’s
Word.
(Rev 22:19 KJV) And if any man shall take away from the
words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the
book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are
written in this book. The sorry situation is that
Christians who use these modern versions are giving approbation to the
corrupted texts. They are literally defying God by using them.
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- Now something interesting surfaced in this study which should be of
interest to all those who claim that the Jehovah’s Witness Bible is not
translated from the same corrupted manuscripts as the modern versions. If
you notice in the footnotes above, in the NWT, they mention that these two
verses are not found in (B) Vaticanus, (
a)
Sinaiticus, and “C” which is the 5th century manuscript “Ephraemi
Rescriptus.” These three manuscripts are part of the forty five which make
up the Hort-Westcott text which lie behind every modern version used in the
Protestant Church. So when you pick up your NIV, RSV, or ESV, you are using
the same version the Jehovah’s Witnesses bring to your door to try and pry
you away from the Lord Jesus Christ. Then we wonder why the power of the
church has waned.
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- The NASV and NKJV keep the two verses in the text, however the NASV
places brackets around them and then in the footnotes questions their
authenticity. They claim they are not found in the early manuscripts. What
manuscripts do they mean? Their statements are so nebulous yet are taken as
so credible. The NKJV is also a subtle deceiver. They claim they used the
Textus Receptus in translating it, yet Dr. D. A. Waite of the Bible for
Today has a detailed listing of 2,000 departures from the Textus Receptus.
When we come to Mark 9:44 & 46, the center column states that the NU text
omits these verses. The NU text is - “N” The Nestle-Aland Text which has 27
updates. The “U” is the United Bible Societies text which has four revised
editions. That is a combined total of 31 revisions as of 1983. Has God
changed His Word 31 Times? God wrote one Bible and that was it.
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- If they are using the Textus Receptus then why are they referencing the
corrupted Gnostic texts? The 1881 Revised Version and the 1901 American
Standard Version both state that these verses are omitted by the best
ancient authorities. Those ancient authorities are Sinaiticus and the
Vaticanus, two corrupted Roman Catholic Manuscripts. Can anything from Rome
be in the best interest for the Protestant Christian? When you purchase an
NIV, $1 goes to Rupert Murdoch who owns Harper-Collins who owns Zondervan.
Rupert Murdoch is a pornographer so the richer the Christians make him, the
more he can produce. The pulpits pound that pornography is an abomination,
yet those same churches have purchased many NIV’s. This is nothing more than
pulpit hypocrisy and church leaders need to be called into account for this.