Mark 2:21-22

A Question About Fasting

²¹ No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. ²² And no one puts new wine into old _q wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins - and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins." ₁

Cross References
Joshua 9:4
They on their part acted with cunning and went and made ready provisions and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended.

Matthew Henry Concise

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Mark 2:21

Strong's Concordance

Mark 2:21

No manG3762 alsoG2532 sewethG1976 a pieceG1915 of newG46 clothG4470 onG1909 an oldG3820 garment:G2440 elseG1490 the new pieceG2537 that filled it upG4138 taketh awayG142 fromG846 the old,G3820 andG2532 the rentG4978 is madeG1096 worse.G5501

Notes

Mark 2:21 - 22

No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins - and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins. ...

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