What Does Mark 2:22 Mean in the King James?
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The wine is νέον (neon, young or recent), while the wineskins are καινούς (kainous, fresh or new): what is still expanding needs a vessel able to yield.
THE MEANING
What is newly moving through your life keeps expanding. A container that has become rigid cannot yield, so the collision spills the contents and damages the vessel. The verse names fit as a living condition: what carries change needs room to stretch.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A new thing cannot always be held safely by the same structure simply because it once held what came before.
THE ROOT
ἀπόλλυται
apollytai
GROWS FROM
ἀπόλλυμι
apollymi
To lose, destroy, or perish.
“spilled / marred” in this verse is apollytai. Mark uses one Greek loss verb, ἀπόλλυται (apollytai, is lost or perishes), for the wine; the wineskins follow as the second subject. The KJV renders that loss as “spilled” and “marred,” binding the contents and their container in one consequence.
ALSO GROWS
apōleia: Loss, destruction.
ἀπώλεια
This noun makes explicit the loss carried by the verse’s verb.
apolōlōs: Lost, perished.
ἀπολωλώς
This form describes what has been lost, echoing the fate of both the wine and its vessel.
ῥήξει
rhēxei
GROWS FROM
ῥηγ-/ῥηκ- (rhēg-/rhēk-), from ῥήγνυμι (rhēgnumi)
To break open, burst, or tear.
“burst” in this verse is rhēxei. The word pictures pressure becoming an actual rupture, not gradual wear. What cannot yield breaks, and the loss named by ἀπόλλυται (apollytai, is lost or perishes) follows.
ALSO GROWS
rhēgma: A rupture or break.
ῥῆγμα
This noun makes the fracture itself visible beneath the verse’s plain “burst.”
diarrhēgnumi: To tear apart or burst through.
διαρρήγνυμι
The intensified form carries the image of a tear that opens across the container.
καινούς
kainous
GROWS FROM
καιν-
kain-
Fresh, new, or renewed in condition.
The verse calls the wine νέον (neon, young or recent) and the wineskins καινούς (kainous, fresh or new). English repeats “new,” while the Greek wording lets young contents meet a freshly renewed vessel.
ALSO GROWS
kainotēs: Newness.
καινότης
This branch names the fresh condition the wineskin needs in order to contain the wine.
anakainōsis: Renewal.
ἀνακαίνωσις
This branch brings out the vessel’s required capacity as a state of renewal.
THE PATTERN
Newness presses on the forms that contain it, requiring a way of carrying it that can bear the change.
Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.THE THREAD
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.Mark’s ἀπόλλυται (apollytai, is lost or perishes) and Luke’s ἀπολοῦνται (apolountai, will perish) come from ἀπόλλυμι (apollymi, lose or perish). The shared root opens the paired loss in Mark: the vessel and what it carries are caught in the same failure.
Read the SDV Bible.
Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.
The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us