Now, when Mark does this, the middle piece is always a commentary on the original story, and that's what we have with this parable. In other words, there's a story tucked into the middle of another. When Mark wrote his gospel he often used a powerful rhetorical device called "sandwiching." Sandwiching is when the writer begins telling a story, then in the middle switches to another story, and then finally finishes the first story. Skins but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins." Skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the Wineskins otherwise, the wine will burst the It, the new from the old, and a worse tear One sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an oldĬloak otherwise, the patch pulls away from The passage our writer is wondering about The parable of the patches and the wineskinsĪnd I don't think I understand what Jesus means." Was reading the Gospel of Mark and came across Does the Parable of the Old Wineskins Mean?
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