Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Mark: Chapter 2]
not suit the wedding feast. Mark, Matthew, and Luke all give the
three parables (bridegroom, unfulled cloth, new wineskins)
illustrating and defending the conduct of Jesus in feasting with
Levi on a Jewish fast-day. Lu 5:36 calls these parables. Jesus
here seems iconoclastic to the ecclesiastics and revolutionary in
emphasis on the spiritual instead of the ritualistic and
ceremonial.
2:21 {Seweth on} (\epirhaptei\). Here only in the N.T. or
elsewhere, though the uncompounded verb \rhapt•\ (to sew) is
common enough, {sews upon:} in Mt 9:16 and Lu 5:37 use
\epiballei\, put upon or clap upon.
2:22 {But new wine into fresh wineskins} (\alla oinon neon eis
askous kainous\). Westcott and Hort bracket this clause as a
Western non-interpolation though omitted only in D and some old
Latin MSS. It is genuine in Lu 5:38 and may be so here.
2:23 {Through the cornfields} (\dia t•n sporim•n\). See on ¯Mt
12:1. So Matt. and Lu 6:1. But Mark uses \paraporeuesthai\, to
go along beside, unless \diaporeuesthai\ (BCD) is accepted.
Perhaps now on the edge, now within the grain. Mark uses also
\hodon poiein\, to {make a way} like the Latin _iter facere_, as
if through the standing grain, {plucking the ears} (\tillontes
tous stachuas\). Work of preparing food the rabbis called it. The
margin of the Revised Version has it correctly: They began to
make their way plucking the ears of corn (grain, wheat or barley,
we should say). See on ¯Mt 12:1-8 for discussion of this
passage, parallel also in Lu 6:15.
2:26 {The house of God} (\ton oikon tou theou\). The tent or
tabernacle at Nob, not the temple in Jerusalem built by Solomon.
{When Abiathar was high priest} (\epi Abiathar archiere•s\). Neat
Greek idiom, in the time of Abiathar as high priest. There was
confusion in the Massoretic text and in the LXX about the
difference between Ahimelech (Abimelech) and Abiathar (2Sa
8:17), Ahimelech's son and successor (1Sa 21:2; 22:20).
Apparently Ahimelech, not Abiathar was high priest at this time.
It is possible that both father and son bore both names (1Sa
22:20; 2Sa 8:17; 1Ch 18:16), Abiathar mentioned though both
involved. \Epi\ may so mean in the passage about Abiathar. Or we
may leave it unexplained. They had the most elaborate rules for
the preparation of the shewbread (\tous artous t•s prothese•s\),
the loaves of presentation, the loaves of the face or presence of
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