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NASB | Mark 2:22 "No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 2:22 "No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the [fermenting] wine will [expand and] burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the wineskins. But new wine must be put into new wineskins." |
Bible Question: What does this mean? |
Bible Answer: Hello loosed, Going back to vs. 18 we see that Jesus is responding to the question about fasting. He is basically contrasting the old vs. the new. You can also read a parallel account in Luke 5:33-39. Weust offers this: "The same teaching is found in this parable as in the previous one, the commingling of the new with the old, which renders both useless." [Kenneth S. Wuest, Wuest's Word Studies from the Greek New Testament] The Commentary Critical says: "The incongruities mentioned in Luke 5:36–38 were intended to illustrate the difference between the genius of the old and new economies, and the danger of mixing up the one with the other. As in the one case supposed, “the rent is made worse,” and in the other, “the new wine is spilled,” so by a mongrel mixture of the ascetic ritualism of the old with the spiritual freedom of the new economy, both are disfigured and destroyed. The additional parable in Luke 5:39, which is peculiar to Luke, has been variously interpreted. But the “new wine” seems plainly to be the evangelical freedom which Christ was introducing; and the old, the opposite spirit of Judaism: men long accustomed to the latter could not be expected “straightway”—all at once—to take a liking for the former; that is, “These inquiries about the difference between My disciples and the Pharisees,” and even John’s, are not surprising; they are the effect of a natural revulsion against sudden change, which time will cure; the new wine will itself in time become old, and so acquire all the added charms of antiquity. What lessons does this teach, on the one hand, to those who unreasonably cling to what is getting antiquated; and, on the other, to hasty reformers who have no patience with the timidity of their weaker brethren!" I hope this helps, BradK |
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