After complaining that Jesus keeps poor company, the Pharisees move in a little closer to complain that Jesus’ disciples aren’t obvious abstentionists, that they are essentially enjoying themselves too much. Jesus confronts their legalism yet again and shows how joy and fasting are to be rhythms of relationship and not rules for personal piety.
33 And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” 34 And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” 36 He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”
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James Harleman
Luke 5:33–39
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