Look at the pictures Pic on right - Mount of Beatitudes Jesus preached - Sermon on the Mount Jesus preached blessings and intensified messages Jesus used the ongoing fire in Gehenna, as sometimes literal, and sometimes figurative, for certain judgment. There were times when GEHENNA was used as literal/figurative - at once Jesus knew everyone was aware of the 600 year old stinking fire, still burning in the ravine, in - Jerusalem. The continual burning of the dump fire, gave a literal vivid picture to the mind. Look at scriptures in the New Testament, where authorship writes - Gehenna - and version VARIANTS, write - hell. Jesus and James said - Gehenna