Ezra 7:22
Konteks7:22 up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of olive oil, 1 and unlimited 2 salt.
Yehezkiel 43:24
Konteks43:24 You will present them before the Lord, and the priests will scatter salt on them 3 and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.
Matius 5:13
Konteks5:13 “You are the salt 4 of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, 5 how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.
Markus 9:49-50
Konteks9:49 Everyone will be salted with fire. 6 9:50 Salt 7 is good, but if it loses its saltiness, 8 how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”
Kolose 4:6
Konteks4:6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone.
[7:22] 1 tc The translation reads מְשַׁח בַּתִּין (mÿshakh battin) rather than מְשַׁח בַּתִּין (battin mÿshakh) of the MT.
[7:22] 2 tn Aram “he did not write.”
[43:24] 3 sn It is likely that salt was used with sacrificial meals (Num 18:19; 2 Chr 13:5).
[5:13] 4 sn Salt was used as seasoning or fertilizer (BDAG 41 s.v. ἅλας a), or as a preservative. If salt ceased to be useful, it was thrown away. With this illustration Jesus warned about a disciple who ceased to follow him.
[5:13] 5 sn The difficulty of this saying is understanding how salt could lose its flavor since its chemical properties cannot change. It is thus often assumed that Jesus was referring to chemically impure salt, perhaps a natural salt which, when exposed to the elements, had all the genuine salt leached out, leaving only the sediment or impurities behind. Others have suggested that the background of the saying is the use of salt blocks by Arab bakers to line the floor of their ovens; under the intense heat these blocks would eventually crystallize and undergo a change in chemical composition, finally being thrown out as unserviceable. A saying in the Talmud (b. Bekhorot 8b) attributed to R. Joshua ben Chananja (ca.
[9:49] 6 tc The earliest
[9:49] sn The statement everyone will be salted with fire is difficult to interpret. It may be a reference to (1) unbelievers who enter hell as punishment for rejection of Jesus, indicating that just as salt preserves so they will be preserved in their punishment in hell forever; (2) Christians who experience suffering in this world because of their attachment to Christ; (3) any person who experiences suffering in a way appropriate to their relationship to Jesus. For believers this means the suffering of purification, and for unbelievers it means hell, i.e., eternal torment.
[9:50] 7 sn Salt was used as seasoning or fertilizer (BDAG 41 s.v. ἅλας a), or as a preservative. If salt ceased to be useful, it was thrown away. With this illustration Jesus warned about a disciple who ceased to follow him.
[9:50] 8 sn The difficulty of this saying is understanding how salt could lose its saltiness since its chemical properties cannot change. It is thus often assumed that Jesus was referring to chemically impure salt, perhaps a natural salt which, when exposed to the elements, had all the genuine salt leached out, leaving only the sediment or impurities behind. Others have suggested the background of the saying is the use of salt blocks by Arab bakers to line the floor of their ovens: Under the intense heat these blocks would eventually crystallize and undergo a change in chemical composition, finally being thrown out as unserviceable. A saying in the Talmud (b. Bekhorot 8b) attributed to R. Joshua ben Chananja (ca.