Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Mark 2:22
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
22. new ] Men do not pour new, or unfermented, wine into old and worn wine-skins. “My disciples,” our Lord seems to say, “are not yet strong. They have not yet been baptized into the Spirit. They need tenderness and consideration. They could no more endure severe new doctrine than an old robe could the insertion of a piece of new cloth which had never passed through the hands of the fuller.” In training His disciples our Lord never took the old wine from them till they were capable of relishing the new. In Romans 14 we have the best practical commentary on His words.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles,…. By “old bottles” are meant, the Scribes and Pharisees, the whole, which needed not a physician, and the righteous, Christ came not to call; and by new wine, either the love of God, which is not shed abroad in the hearts of such persons; or the blessings of the new covenant, which are not bestowed upon them; or the Gospel, which brings an account of both, which is not received by carnal men:
else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: the Gospel will only fill them with rage and fury, and they will despise it, and let it go; which will be an aggravation of their sin and misery, and so will prove the savour of death unto death unto them:
but new wine must be put into new bottles; into the hearts of sinners, who are called to repentance, and are renewed in the Spirit of their minds; are newborn babes, that desire the sincere milk of the word, and wine of the Gospel; in these the love of God is exceeding abundant, and it comes in with full flows into their souls; all grace is made to abound towards them, and the word of Christ richly dwells in them; in whom these things remain and abide, and they themselves are saved with an everlasting salvation;
[See comments on Mt 9:17].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
But new wine into fresh wineskins ( ). Westcott and Hort bracket this clause as a Western non-interpolation though omitted only in D and some old Latin MSS. It is genuine in Lu 5:38 and may be so here.
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
1) “And no man putteth new wine into old bottles(kai oudeis ballei ounon neon eis askous palaious) “And no one puts new wine into old wineskin bottles,” that is no mature man, no man with good judgement, will store or attempt to preserve new wine, by putting it into this kind of old container.
2) “Else the new wine doth burst the bottles,” (ei do me hreksei ho oinos tous askous) “Otherwise the new wine will split or burst the wineskin bottles,” Luk 5:37-39. This parable was to shock the Pharisees and Sadducees into a recognition that Jesus was not a mere repair man for their Mosaic religious order.
3) “And the wine is spilled,” (kai ho oinos apollutai) ”And the wine perishes,” is spilled, and lost, as well as the old wineskin bottles. Such bottles were used by Hagar, Gen 21:14; by the Gibeonites, by Joel, Jdg 4:19; and by Abigail, 1Sa 25:13.
4) “And the bottles will be marred-(kai hoi askoi)”And the wineskin bottles are ruined,” marred so as to destroy their usefulness, Psa 119:83; Mat 9:17. Jesus did not merely come to repair, but to fulfill Moses’ Law order of worship and offer something that was better, Mat 5:17-18; Act 20:28.
5) “But new wine must be put into new bottles.” (alla oinon neon eis askous kainous) “But new wine is (must be) put into new wineskin bottles;- The old bottles refer to the orders of Old Testament Worship administered by the Pharisees and the Sadducees, containing in the bottles their ceremonies and rituals. What John the Baptist came to prepare, as a way for Jesus, and what Jesus established was the New Bottle, the new container, the Church that was filled with a New Testament Order of Worship and service, Heb 10:9; Heb 3:4-6; Eph 2:14-16; Eph 3:9-10; Eph 3:21.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
‘And no man puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the wine will burst the skins, and the wine perishes, and the skins. But they put new wine into fresh wineskins.’
The double illustration enforces the lesson. Old wineskins (for containing wine) have become dried out and frail as a result of the action of the wine. They have ceased to be pliable. They are thus unable to contain the action of the new wine. So if new wine is put into them they will burst and both the wine and the wineskins will be lost.
Once more the emphasis is on the fact that in this new age which was beginning, the old outward things must be done away. Many religious ideas and practises had grown up through the centuries, and as will happen to such ideas they had become old and dried up. One such idea was regular fasting. But now that the new age has come, a new look must be taken at everything. This was the time for drinking new wine, the time for rejoicing. To put that new wine into the old wineskins would destroy it and people would then be bereft of both the old and the new. They would have lost everything.
Paul had the same thought from a different perspective when he said, “if any man is in Christ he is a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold they are become new.” For when we come to Christ we are taken out of the past and brought into a new future. Everything becomes new. And we do well not to go back to the old, and indeed must be careful not to.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
Ver. 22. See Trapp on “ Mat 9:17 “
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Mar 2:22 . . Pricaeus ( ad Mat 9:17 ) quotes from Seneca (83 Epist.): “musto dolia ipsa rumpuntur” of course, a fortiori , old skins . , etc.: and the wine is lost, also the skins. , etc.: this final clause, bracketed in W. and H [14] , with the , probably inserted from Lk., gives very pithy expression to the principle taught by the parable: but new wine into new skins! As to the bearing of both parables as justifying both John and Jesus, vide notes on Mt., ad loc.
[14] Westcott and Hort.
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
new = fresh made. Greek. ties. See note on Matt.
bottles = wine-skins.
marred = destroyed.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
marred (Greek – ).”
(See Scofield “Joh 3:16”)
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
bottles: Jos 9:4, Jos 9:13, Job 32:19, Psa 119:80, Psa 119:83, Mat 9:17, Luk 5:37, Luk 5:38
Reciprocal: Luk 5:36 – No man
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Verse 22
Burst the bottles; by its fermentation.–New bottles; which, being made of skins, and consequently elastic, yield to the expansion, and are not easily torn. These two cases are designed to express the incongruity of mourning and fasting on the part of the disciples, while their Lord was with them.
Fuente: Abbott’s Illustrated New Testament
Mar 2:22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles. Mar 2:23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn. Mar 2:24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful? Mar 2:25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he and they that were with him? Mar 2:26 How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests and gave also to them which were with him? Mar 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Mar 2:28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
I once was given a Bible study course from the Seventh Day Adventists. I took the one on the Sabbath because I needed to cover the topic with a Christian woman who had been married to a Seventh Day man, but had been a member of our church for some time.
The slickness should have been evident to me for there must have been an oil slick on the sheet. They started in the Old Testament and pointed out what the Sabbath was and quoted a few verses from the Old Testament and ended by using Mar 2:28 “Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.” That was the end of the study and you were left with the impression that the New Testament had nothing more to say on the subject.
Well in fact the New Testament does have something to say both with its words and with its silence. The words tell us that the early church met on the first day, not the last day. The silence screams that the Ten Commandments are all restated in the New Testament EXCEPT FOR ONE the Sabbath commandment.
I might also point out that THE SABBATH IS SATURDAY, NOT A RE-MADE SUNDAY preachers! So many pastors/teachersmake this mistake. The Sabbath is Saturday and this has never changed. The cross did not magically change the Sabbath to Sunday. The Sabbath is Saturday and Sunday is the Lord’s day, the first day of the week.