Mark 2:21-23

Contemporary English Version

²¹No one patches old clothes by sewing on a piece of new cloth. The new piece would shrink and tear a bigger hole.

²²No one pours new wine into old wineskins. The wine would swell and burst the old skins.^[a] Then the wine would be lost, and the skins would be ruined. New wine must be put into new wineskins.

A Question about the Sabbath

(Matthew 12.1-8; Luke 6.1-5)

²³^(A) One Sabbath Jesus and his disciples were walking through some wheat fields. His disciples were picking grains of wheat as they went along.^[b]

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Footnotes

2.22 swell and burst the old skins: While the juice from grapes was becoming wine, it would swell and stretch the skins in which it had been stored. If the skins were old and stiff, they would burst.
2.23 went along: It was the custom to let hungry travelers pick grains of wheat.