Thanks for your comments. I’ll do my best to answer your concerns.

I used Biblegateway.com to search the NIV for all Jesus’ mentionings of “hell.”

If there were multiple similar mentionings, such as Matthew 5:21-30, Matthew 18:8-10 and Mark 9:42-47, I just focused on interpreting one citation.

But some citations that you note, like John 3:36 (NIV), don’t actually use the word “hell.” So, I didn’t interpret them.

One key point is that verses that “allude” are not what I’m interested in. Look at my question. I’m interested, explicitly, in what Jesus had to say about “hell.” There’s a difference between looking at allusions to hell and looking concretely at what Jesus said about “hell.”

The very thing that I’m arguing against is the commonplace view that “hell” is a place. I don’t see it. It seems to me that Matthew 5:21-30 offers a fine example of “hell” as a way of relating with one’s self and one’s neighbor.

When Jesus says “gouge” out an eye and throw it away, it seems to me that he’s saying precisely nothing about a place. Rather, he is saying that one has to relate to one’s self in a particular way—one has to be disciplined and not allow one’s eyes to wonder and lust after women. It is exactly this kind of relationship (“adultery”) that will cast one’s “whole body” into “hell.”