Mark 2:21-22

A new life with a new dedication requires a shift in our attitudes and our surroundings. God will give us a new heart and a new purpose in life. He will take out the things that separate us from Him replacing the old with the newness of life in Him. The Holy Spirit takes the Word of God and makes it alive in our ordinary everyday life. Our normal way of handlings things no longer works. Jesus ushered in the new with shouts of grace and mercy and left us with the only one who could bring the change into fruition…the Holy Spirit.

We cannot live in the past and be present in our future.

Jesus emphasizes the change brought about by the kingdom’s arrival. While the previous analogy contrasted present and future, this verse distinguishes between old and new. Faithlife Bible.

Mark records only four of Jesus’ parables—two of which he includes here. The comparison implies that the newness of His message, and of the new covenant to follow, cannot fit into the old molds of Judaism. The OT was preparation for the NT. NKJ Bible.

αἴρει τὸ πλήρωμα τὸ καινὸν τοῦ παλαιοῦ) This reading is a mean between extremes, brief, and likely to be genuine.[22] The meaning is: the new piece put in to patch up the rent, takes away with it some of the old cloth. [22] Aδ, later Syr., whom Tischend.

The meaning of the words is this: An old garment, if it be torn, should be mended by a patch of old material; for if a patch of new material is used, its strength or fullness takes away from the old garment to which it is sewn; the old and the new do not agree, the new drags the old and tears it, and so a worse rent is made.

Mark 2:21–22 (NKJV)

²¹ No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse. ²² And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”

Matthew 9:16–17 (NKJV)

¹⁶ No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. ¹⁷ Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

Luke 5:36–38 (NKJV)

³⁶ Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. ³⁷ And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. ³⁸ But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.