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21 Besides, going without food is part of the old way of doing things.[a] It is like patching an old garment with unshrunk cloth! What happens? The patch pulls away and leaves the hole worse than before. 22 You know better than to put new wine into old wineskins. They would burst. The wine would be spilled out and the wineskins ruined. New wine needs fresh wineskins.”

23 Another time, on a Sabbath day as Jesus and his disciples were walking through the fields, the disciples were breaking off heads of wheat and eating the grain.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 2:21 way of doing things, implied.
  2. Mark 2:23 eating the grain, implied.

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