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
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.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the bottles destroyed; but new wine is to be put in new (fresh) wineskins. American Standard Version (1901) And no man putteth new wine into old wine-skins; else the wine will burst the skins, and the wine perisheth, and the skins: but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins. Common English Bible No one pours new wine into old leather wineskins; otherwise, the wine would burst the wineskins and the wine would be lost and the wineskins destroyed. But new wine is for new wineskins.” Catholic Public Domain Version And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the wineskins, and the wine will pour out, and the wineskins will be lost. Instead, new wine must be put into new wineskins." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the wine will burst the bottles, and both the wine will be spilled, and the bottles will be lost. But new wine must be put into new bottles. |
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
Lord, let me obey your commands perfectly,\par so I will not be ashamed.\par
Even when I am like a dried wineskin\par on the trash pile,\par I will not forget your laws.\par
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.”
“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.
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\}.
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.”
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.