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“The Gospel of Mark is not a biography of Jesus,” writes D. Edmond Hiebert, “but rather a delineation of the ‘good news’ of salvation made available through the suffering Servant of Jehovah. The picture presented is in harmony with the declared purpose of Jesus that ‘the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.’ ” Following a...

commonly used in the Orient as containers for liquids. With age, such skins became hard and lost their elasticity. To put new wine (fresh from the wine vat) into them would mean that inevitably the fermenting wine would burst the old skins. A double loss would result: the wine would be lost, and the skins would be ruined. The common-sense thing was to put new wine into fresh or unused wineskins. Because of the elasticity and strength, they would safely contain the fermenting wine. The teaching of
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