2nd point was about the temptations of sins and what it does. Jesus goes through a few figures (or literals maybe?) of examples of well if you hand/eye/etc causes you to stumble, then get rid of it bc it's better you're missing something while entering heaven then having a whole body entering hell. In the NASB version, they repeat "the worms won't die, and the fire is not quenched." I had to look that up and it brings a vivid imagine of Jesus' teaching.
I'll just copy/paste from a website...
The margins of some Bibles show that the words "hell fire" in Mark 9:47 should be translated "Gehenna fire." Gehenna, or the valley of Hinnom, is located outside Jerusalem. Trash, refuse, animal carcasses, and even the dead bodies of despised criminals were thrown there to be destroyed by the fires that burned perpetually on the valley floor. If some animal or vegetable matter fell on one of the ledges below the rim, escaping the fire, it would instead be devoured by maggots.
Jesus' point is that whatever was thrown into the valley never came out again; it was totally consumed, either by fire or by worms or maggots. In other words, just as nothing and no one exterminated the maggots or extinguished the flames in the valley of Gehenna, so there will be no escape from the certain fate that God has decreed for all unrepentant sinners—death in the "lake of fire" (Revelation 22:14).
Pretty freaking crazy.
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