Mark 2:22
Context2:22 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 8:38
Context8:38 For if anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him 3 when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
Mark 11:2
Context11:2 and said to them, “Go to the village ahead of you. 4 As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. 5 Untie it and bring it here.
Mark 12:15
Context12:15 But he saw through their hypocrisy and said 6 to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius 7 and let me look at it.”
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 13:14
Context13:14 “But when you see the abomination of desolation 8 standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee 9 to the mountains.
Mark 16:6
Context16:6 But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. 10 He has been raised! 11 He is not here. Look, there is the place where they laid him.
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 How one responds now to Jesus and his teaching is a reflection of how Jesus, as the Son of Man who judges, will respond then in the final judgment.
4 tn Grk “the village lying before you” (BDAG 530 s.v. κατέναντι 2.b).
5 tn Grk “a colt tied there on which no one of men has ever sat.”
6 tn Grk “Aware of their hypocrisy he said.”
7 tn Here the specific name of the coin was retained in the translation, because not all coins in circulation in Palestine at the time carried the image of Caesar. In other places δηνάριον (dhnarion) has been translated simply as “silver coin” with an explanatory note.
sn A denarius was a silver coin stamped with the image of the emperor and worth approximately one day’s wage for a laborer.
8 sn The reference to the abomination of desolation is an allusion to Dan 9:27. Though some have seen the fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy in the actions of Antiochus IV (or a representative of his) in 167
9 sn Fleeing to the mountains is a key OT image: Gen 19:17; Judg 6:2; Isa 15:5; Jer 16:16; Zech 14:5.
10 sn See the note on Crucify in 15:13.
11 tn The verb here is passive (ἠγέρθη, hgerqh). This “divine passive” (see ExSyn 437-38) points to the fact that Jesus was raised by God.