Adjective asbestos (unquenchable) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV)


Matthew

3: 12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable (asbestos) fire."

Mark

9: 43If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable (asbestos) fire.

Luke

3: 17His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable (asbestos) fire."