⚡WEB · Mark 2:22
What does Mark 2:22 mean?
"No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”"
— Mark 2:22 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day.
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.
No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”
He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.
The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”
He said to them, “Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry—he, and those who were with him?
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Biblical perspective
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Lamentations 2:22 and Revelation 22:20 are real verses. The Revelation passage — "Come, Lord Jesus" — is one of the most striking short prayers in all of Scripture.
Revelation 22:20
"He who testifies these things says, 'Yes, I come quickly.' Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus."
2 Corinthians 1:20
"For however many are the promises of God, in him is the 'Yes.' Therefore also through him is the 'Amen,' to the glory of God through us."
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