In some versions of the New Testament, "hell" is a translation of the Greek word Gehenna, a place known in the Old Testament times as the Valley of Hinnom. Jesus uses a word picture of the garbage dump to the south of Jerusalem where the refuse of the city was burned. Jesus uses this real place of burning rubble to illustrate the fate of those who gain the world but lose their soul (Matthew 16:26).On several occasions Jesus speaks of the wailing and gnashing of teeth that will accompany final judgement (Matthew 13:42). Three times in Mark 9, He draws the words of Isaiah when He describes the danger of "the fire that shall never be quenched--where 'their worm does not die.'" If Jesus uses these words in the same way as Isaiah, He is warning about the horror of divine judgement without telling us for how long or to what degree such persons suffer.NEXT: Hell in Revelation
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