Discovery BoxMark 2:21-22 
Context2:21 No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear becomes worse. 2:22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; 1 otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins will be destroyed. Instead new wine is poured into new wineskins.” 2
Mark 3:27
Context3:27 But no one is able to enter a strong man’s 3 house and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can thoroughly plunder his house. 4
Mark 5:4
Context5:4 For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, 5 but 6 he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.
Mark 5:15
Context5:15 They came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind – the one who had the “Legion” – and they were afraid.
Mark 9:42
Context9:42 “If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone 7 tied around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.
Mark 9:47
Context9:47 If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out! 8 It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have 9 two eyes and be thrown into hell,
Mark 10:21
Context10:21 As Jesus looked at him, he felt love for him and said, “You lack one thing. Go, sell whatever you have and give the money 10 to the poor, and you will have treasure 11 in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
Mark 10:29
Context10:29 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, 12 there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel
Mark 12:28
Context12:28 Now 13 one of the experts in the law 14 came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus 15 answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”
Mark 12:34
Context12:34 When Jesus saw that he had answered thoughtfully, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” Then no one dared any longer to question him.
Mark 14:43
Context14:43 Right away, while Jesus 16 was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived. 17 With him came a crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and experts in the law 18 and elders.
1 sn Wineskins were bags made of skin or leather, used for storing wine in NT times. As the new wine fermented and expanded, it would stretch the new wineskins. Putting new (unfermented) wine in old wineskins, which had already been stretched, would result in the bursting of the wineskins.
2 sn The meaning of the saying new wine is poured into new skins is that the presence and teaching of Jesus was something new and signaled the passing of the old. It could not be confined within the old religion of Judaism, but involved the inauguration and consummation of the kingdom of God.
3 sn The strong man here pictures Satan.
4 sn Some see the imagery here as similar to Eph 4:7-10, although no opponents are explicitly named in that passage. Jesus has the victory over Satan. Jesus’ acts of healing mean that the war is being won and the kingdom is coming.
5 tn Grk “he had often been bound with chains and shackles.” “Shackles” could also be translated “fetters”; they were chains for the feet.
6 tn Grk “and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
7 tn Grk “the millstone of a donkey.” This refers to a large flat stone turned by a donkey in the process of grinding grain (BDAG 661 s.v. μύλος 2; L&N 7.68-69). The same term is used in the parallel account in Matt 18:6.
sn The punishment of drowning with a heavy weight attached is extremely gruesome and reflects Jesus’ views concerning those who cause others who believe in him to sin.
8 tn Grk “throw it out.”
9 tn Grk “than having.”
10 tn The words “the money” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.
11 sn The call for sacrifice comes with a promise of eternal reward: You will have treasure in heaven. Jesus’ call is a test to see how responsive the man is to God’s direction through him. Will he walk the path God’s agent calls him to walk? For a rich person who got it right, see Zacchaeus in Luke 19:1-10.
12 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
13 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.
14 tn Or “One of the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.
15 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
16 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
17 tn Or “approached.” This is a different verb than the one translated “arrived” in Matt 26:47 and below in v. 45, although in this context the meanings probably overlap.
18 tn Or “from the chief priests, scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.
