Mark 2:22

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

No one pours new wine into old wineskins. The wine would swell and burst the old skins. Then the wine would be lost, and the skins would be ruined. New wine must be put into new wineskins.

Cross References

Job 32:19

I am like a swollen wineskin, and I will burst

Psalm 119:80

Let me truly respect your laws, so I won't be ashamed.

Psalm 119:83

My life is wasting away like a dried up wineskin, but I have not forgotten your teachings.

Matthew 9:17

No one pours new wine into old wineskins. The wine would swell and burst the old skins. Then the wine would be lost, and the skins would be ruined. New wine must be put into new wineskins. Both the skins and the wine will then be safe.

Mark 2:21

No one patches old clothes by sewing on a piece of new cloth. The new piece would shrink and tear a bigger hole.

Mark 2:23

One Sabbath Jesus and his disciples were walking through some wheat fields. His disciples were picking grains of wheat as they went along.

Joshua 9:13

These cracked wineskins were new when we filled them, and our clothes and sandals are worn out because we have travelled so far.

Joshua 9:4

So they decided that some of their men should pretend to be messengers to Israel from a faraway country. The men put worn out bags on their donkeys and found some old wineskins that had cracked and had been sewn back together.