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Mark 9: 49-50 "For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

Mark 9:49-50 is interesting to me because of the use of the word "salt" and the different interpretations that this word could have brought up during the process of translating and editing. "The symbolism of "salt" in v. 50 is not always accurately described. For example, it has been maintained that "salt" means the readiness of the disciples to sacrifice themselves, to suffer. The clue to the interpretation lies in the sentence structure."1

1. Harry Fleddermann, "The discipleship discourse (Mark 9:33-50)" CBQ 43:1 (1981), 73.

Bibliography

Fleddermann, Harry. "The discipleship discourse (Mark 9:33-50)." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 43, no. 1 (January 1, 1981): 57-75.