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Sunday, 24 November 2024

Mark 2:22,23 - New wine

2:22

Old wineskins became hardened with age (people can be prone to the same phenomenon!). New wine would still be fermenting. So if new wine is poured into old wineskins there is a likelihood of the wineskin bursting and everything is lost. New wine needs to be poured into new wineskins. Likewise, the old religious order needed to change. A little more fasting, a more committed approach to keeping the Law was not good enough.


2:23

The final confrontation in this chapter (there is another one at the beginning of the next chapter) concerns the Sabbath, though I think this one may actually be more concerned about a general attitude towards the Law, see later comments. It was the Sabbath, and Jesus and his disciples were going through the cornfields, picking some ears of corn as they went along. The act of picking the ears of corn was not itself illegal (Deut 23:25).


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