Mark 2:21-23
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21 No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak. If he does, its fullness pulls away, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse. 22 Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins.”
The Disciples and the Sabbath.[a] 23 As he was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain.(A)
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- 2:23–28 This conflict regarding the sabbath follows the same pattern as in Mk 2:18–22.
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