21 No one sews a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old garment. Otherwise[a] the patch pulls away from it—the new from the old—and the tear becomes worse. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise[b] the wine will burst the wineskins and the wine is destroyed and the wineskins too. But new wine is put into new wineskins.”

Plucking Grain on the Sabbath

23 And it happened that he was going through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to make their way while[c] plucking off the heads of grain.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 2:21 Literally “but if not”
  2. Mark 2:22 Literally “but if not”
  3. Mark 2:23 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“picking”) which is understood as temporal