Mark 2 · Verse 22

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.
Mark 2:22, King James Version

Mark 2:22 in other translations

BSBAnd no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”
WEBNo one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”
ASVAnd no man putteth new wine into old wine-skins; else the wine will burst the skins, and the wine perisheth, and the skins: but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins.
YLTand no one doth put new wine into old skins, and if not--the new wine doth burst the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine into new skins is to be put.'
DARBYAnd no one puts new wine into old skins; otherwise the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine is to be put into new skins.
BBEAnd no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.
WebsterAnd 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.

What does Mark 2:22 mean?

Barnes' Notes
Verse 22.

(s) "be marred" Job 32:19, Ps 119:80,83

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 2:18-22

Strict professors are apt to blame all that do not fully come up to their own views. Christ did not escape slanders; we should be willing to bear them, as well as careful not to deserve them; but should attend to every part of our duty in its proper order and season.

Read the full comment on Mark 2:18-22 →

Mark 2:22 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ΚαὶKaiAndG2532
οὐδεὶςoudeisno [one]G3762
βάλλειballeiputsG906
οἶνονoinonwineG3631
νέονneonnewG3501
εἰςeisintoG1519
ἀσκοὺςaskouswineskinsG779
παλαιούς·palaiousold;G3820
εἰeilestG1487
δὲdethenG1161
μή,mēexcept,G3361
ῥήξειrhēxeiwill burstG4486
ὁhotheG3588
οἶνοςoinoswineG3631
τοὺςtoustheG3588
ἀσκούς,askouswineskinsG779
καὶkaiandG2532
ὁhotheG3588
οἶνοςoinoswineG3631
ἀπόλλυταιapollutaiis destroyedG622
καὶkaiandG2532
οἱhoitheG3588
ἀσκοίaskoiwineskinsG779
ἀλλ᾽all᾽InsteadG235
οἶνονoinonwineG3631
νέονneonnewG3501
εἰςeisintoG1519
ἀσκοὺςaskouswineskinsG779
καινούςkainousnewG2537

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Mark 2:22

  • Matthew 9:17

    Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

  • Psalms 119:83

    For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

  • Luke 5:37-38

    And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.

  • Job 32:19

    Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

  • Joshua 9:4

    They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

  • Joshua 9:13

    And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.

  • Psalms 119:80

    Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
bottles.
Jos 9:4,13; Job 32:19; Ps 119:80,83; Mt 9:17; Lu 5:37,38

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Mark 2:21

    No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

  • 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.

  • Mark 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.

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Mark 2:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Ni nadie echa vino nuevo en odres viejos; de otra manera, el vino nuevo rompe los odres, y se derrama el vino, y los odres se pierden; mas el vino nuevo en odres nuevos se ha de echar.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et personne ne met du vin nouveau dans de vieilles outres; autrement le vin rompt les outres, et le vin se répand, et les outres sont perdues; mais le vin nouveau doit être mis dans des outres neuves.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Auch tut niemand neuen Wein in alte Schläuche; sonst zerreißt der Wein die Schläuche, und der Wein wird verschüttet, und die Schläuche verderben; sondern neuen Wein muß man in neue Schläuche tun.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et nemo mittit vinum novum in utres veteres: alioquin dirumpet vinum utres, et vinum effundetur, et utres peribunt: sed vinum novum in utres novos mitti debet.