Mark 2:22

Easy To Read Version

Also, people never pour new wine into old wine bags. {\cf2\super [32]} Why? Because the new wine will break the bags, and the wine will be ruined with the wine bags. People always put new wine into new wine bags.”

Cross References

Job 32:19

I am like a bottle of new wine\par that hasn’t been opened.\par I am like a new wineskin\par that is ready to break open.\par

Psalm 119:80

Lord, let me obey your commands perfectly,\par so I will not be ashamed.\par

Psalm 119:83

Even when I am like a dried wineskin\par on the trash pile,\par I will not forget your laws.\par

Matthew 9:17

Also, people never pour new wine into old wine bags. {\cf2\super [112]} Why? Because the old bags will break. The wine will spill, and the wine bags will be ruined. But people always pour new wine into new wine bags. Then the wine and the wine bags will continue to be good.”

Mark 2:21

“When a person sews a patch over a hole on an old coat, that person never uses a piece of cloth that is not yet shrunk. If he does, the patch will \{shrink and\} pull away from the coat. Then the hole will be worse.

Mark 2:23

On the Sabbath day, {\cf2\super [33]} Jesus was walking through some grain fields. Jesus’ followers were walking with him. The followers picked some grain \{to eat\}.

Joshua 9:13

See our wineskins! When we left home they were new and filled with wine. Now you can see that they are cracked and old. See our clothes and sandals! You can see that the long journey has almost destroyed the things we wear.”

Joshua 9:4

So those people decided to try to fool the people of Israel. This was their plan: They gathered together old wineskins [45] that were cracked and broken. They put these old wine skins on the backs of their animals. They put old pieces of cloth on their animals to look like they had traveled from far away.