Mark 2:18-22
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
Why Do Your Disciples Not Fast? The Bridegroom Is Here. New Wine Needs New Wineskins
18 And the disciples of John and the Pharisees[a] were fasting. And they come and say to Him, “For what reason are the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fasting, but Your disciples are not fasting?” 19 And Jesus said to them, “The sons of the wedding-hall[b] cannot be fasting while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long a time as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot be fasting. 20 But days will come when the bridegroom is taken-away from them, and then they will fast in that day. 21 No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise the fullness [of the patch] takes from it— the new from the old— and a worse tear[c] takes place. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wine will burst the wineskins, and the wine is lost, and the wineskins. But one puts new wine into fresh[d] wineskins”.
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- Mark 2:18 On why these two groups may have been fasting, see Mt 9:14.
- Mark 2:19 That is, the attendants of the groom, referring to the disciples.
- Mark 2:21 In other words, Jesus is not a patch on the old Jewish system, sewn on to make repairs. He is a new garment, so His disciples act in a new way.
- Mark 2:22 Jesus cannot be contained within the worn-out Jewish system. A new system is needed.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing
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