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Mark 2:18-22 - Coggle Diagram
Mark 2:18-22
Context
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Author
Unknown, unlikely Mark the Disciple, seems to not be an eyewitness
Potentially John Mark, son of Mary, cousin of Barnabas, companion to Peter, Paul and Barnabas at different times
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Immediate context
Mark 2:18-22 is immediately surround on both sides by the potential chiastic structure with the stories of healing the paralysed man and the withered hand on either end, the stories of eating with sinners and picking and eating grain on the sabbath in between them and this passage in the middle.
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Structure of the book
- Galilean ministry 1:1-9:50
- Journey to Jerusalem - 10:1-10:52
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Passage
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?”
Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them.
But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.
“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse.
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”
History of interpretation, new and old (commentaries, books, dictionary entries and journal articles). Their understanding vs my traditions, standpoint and assumptions
David E. Garland
Mark
NIVAC. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.
(pp102–106, selections)
This section of Mark is a cycle of four disputes regarding Jewish
ritual laws and customs. Each is answered with a truism.
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The kingdom of God has drawn near, it is a joyous time. It is inappropriate and impossible to fast
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Wineskins/garments - He has not come to patch up an old system that does not match the revolutionary rule of God. He is not simply a reformer of the old, but one who will transform it.
No concessions, no accommodations, and no compromises with the old
The old - not just the Judaism of the Pharisees but of John. The old, exemplified by the condemnation and exclusion of sinners in the previous controversy and the practice of fasting in this debate, cannot contain the new. Both will be ruined if they are combined
William Lane, The Gospel of Mark, NICNT (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974), 107–113 (‘The New Situation. Ch. 2:18–22’). [eBook]
James Edwards, The Gospel According to Mark, PNTC (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002), 87–93. [Logos]
Robert Guelich, Mark 1:1–8:26, WBC 34A (Dallas: Word, 1989), 106–117. [PDF]
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Dive
Then go deeper into the details of the passage. You might find it helpful to scribble on a copy of the text, or make notes in Logos.
Make note of translation issues, repeated terms and synonyms, the internal structure of the passage and key words.
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Questions
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Is the old garment the old way of thinking about fasting vs the new way? And if so what is the difference between old and new covenant fasting? - Jesus himself
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Ideas
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David and his men weren't priests but were considered by God to be holy to eat the holy bread. Similarly the disciples were considered by Jesus to be doing his work and so picking and eating wheat is not sin.
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Literary forms
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Literary techniques (metaphors and similes, tone, etc)
Bridegroom
Jesús is the bridegroom, we are the guests. He was with the disciples, then he left, but he is coming again
Wine skins, garments
Jesus is the new wine, new wineskin, new garment. The old way of doing thing doesn't apply to him. You can't take the mourning of the removal of Israel from God and its homeland and apply it to the presence of Jesus the Messiah
cultural approapraite wails of mourning, come to the holy spirit
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Idea - specific in time, Jesus now with hus with the holy spirit
can celebrate, not yet, mourn face fast
maybe approapriate