Mark 2:21-22

2:21 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

3:27 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 7:15

7:15 There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”

Mark 9:39

9:39 But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me.

Mark 10:29

10:29 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, ⁵  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 11:2

11:2 and said to them, “Go to the village ahead of you. ⁶  As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. ⁷  Untie it and bring it here.

Mark 11:13

11:13 After noticing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, he went to see if he could find any fruit ⁸  on it. When he came to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

Mark 12:34

12:34 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 14:61

14:61 But he was silent and did not answer. Again the high priest questioned him, ⁹  “Are you the Christ, ¹⁰  the Son of the Blessed One?”

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.

¹ sn The strong man here pictures Satan.

² 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.

¹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

¹ tn Grk “the village lying before you” (BDAG 530 s.v. κατέναντι 2.b).

² tn Grk “a colt tied there on which no one of men has ever sat.”

¹ tn Grk “anything.”

¹ tn Grk “questioned him and said to him.”

² tn Or “the Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”