Mark 9 Footnotes

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9:50 The Dead Sea provided rock salt to much of Palestine, but it was often of inferior quality, being mixed with other minerals, particularly gypsum. When the salt leeched out of the mixture, the result was a weak product. (The Greek historian Pliny [Nat. Hist. 3, 31, 34] attests to this feature of Dead Sea salt.) Or Jesus’s saying might have been hyperbolic, showing the uselessness and lack of positive witness among his followers if they were not totally committed to him.

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