New Wine, New Wineskins

Context

The New International Version Chapter 5

33 They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.”

34 Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? 35 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.”

36 He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.’ ”

We began this series back in January and Bill has brought us faithfully through the Word and how it applies to our lives.

This passage continues after the calling of Levi aka Matthew and the Pharisee are continuing to accuse and question Jesus. In this passage we see Teachers of the Law Pharisees and Jesus.

The Pharisees are questioning Jesus about His disciples practices of not following tradition, this will happen again,