Jesus' practices angered the legalistic Pharisees at almost every turn. This time they joined those who questioned why his disciples did not fast like the other religious groups in their society. Jesus responds by stating a fact they all knew well - a wedding feast was not the proper time to fast but a time to share in the joy of the bridegroom. Jesus then uses the illustrations of the ripping power of unshrunk patch on an old garment and the new wine which burst the old wineskins to illustrate how the gospel would destroy the legalistic religion of the Pharisees. In the New Covenant all is new and exceedingly better. The Old Covenant is obsolete and needful of discarding.
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Jeff Gregory has been pastor of Good Shepherd Community Church in Dallas, TX, since 1995. During most of that time he worked as an ESL instructor at El Centro Community College in downtown Dallas. He attended New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and graduated with an M.Div....
