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Pericope 15 - Old Ways Displaced by New. Won't do, to mix!

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Now John's disciples and the Pharisees 

were fasting, and they come and say to him:

"Why would (the true religious folk who please

our God) all fast, with trainees - not on whim,

but disciplined by coaches like ol' John,

and Pharisees (who keep the law in mind);

and YET your students, learning from you, on

all kinds of things, aren't being trained to bind

these disciplines like fasting, tid-y'n rooms,

to their young lives? Quite an an-om-al-y!

And Jesus then replied to them: “The grooms-

men cannot fast when he is with them. He,

in spending time with them makes this  "no go!".

The days will come however, when the groom

will have been taken off, away, and so

then they will fast in those days (in their gloom)”.

“And no-one sews a patch of unshrunk lace

on clothing old, for it will tear away,

the new from old, then ā worse tear takes place.

These likenesses he drew, but more he'd say:

And no-one stores new wine in wineskins old.

They don't, for if they did the wine would burst 

the wineskins, and they'd lose (if truth be told),

both wine and wineskins. That's why they think first!

And new wine needs fresh skin to hold it in.

Old structures have been stretched to hold the old:

old life and way, and style and stage, that's been.

They can't be stretched some more, they'll break. Be bold!

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18Καὶ ἦσαν οἱ μαθηταὶ Ἰωάννου καὶ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι νηστεύοντες. καὶ ἔρχονται καὶ λέγουσιν αὐτῷ· διὰ τί οἱ μαθηταὶ Ἰωάννου καὶ οἱ μαθηταὶ τῶν Φαρισαίων νηστεύουσιν, οἱ δὲ σοὶ μαθηταὶ οὐ νηστεύουσιν; 19καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς· μὴ δύνανται οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ νυμφῶνος ἐν ᾧ ὁ νυμφίος μετ’ 

αὐτῶν ἐστιν νηστεύειν; ὅσον χρόνον ἔχουσιν τὸν νυμφίον μετ’ αὐτῶν οὐ δύνανται νηστεύειν. 20ἐλεύσονται δὲ ἡμέραι ὅταν ἀπαρθῇ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν ὁ νυμφίος, καὶ τότε νηστεύσουσιν ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ. 21Οὐδεὶς ἐπίβλημα ῥάκους ἀγνάφου ἐπιράπτει ἐπὶ ἱμάτιον παλαιόν· εἰ δὲ μή, αἴρει τὸ πλήρωμα ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ τὸ καινὸν τοῦ παλαιοῦ καὶ χεῖρον σχίσμα γίνεται. 22καὶ οὐδεὶς βάλλει οἶνον νέον εἰς ἀσκοὺς παλαιούς· εἰ δὲ μή, ῥήξει ὁ οἶνος τοὺς ἀσκοὺς καὶ ὁ οἶνος ἀπόλλυται καὶ οἱ ἀσκοί· ἀλλ’ οἶνον νέον εἰς ἀσκοὺς καινούς. Mark 2:18-22  NA

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