Text Luke 5:33-39 [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 guests 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 patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he 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. If he does, 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 he says, 'The old is better.' ' Exposition Jesus has called Levi to be a disciple (5:27-28) and Levi has responded by holding a banquet attended by his tax collector friends (5:29). By this time in Jesus' ministry, the Pharisees and scribes are watching him carefully, seeking ways to criticize him -- fairly or not -- much like presidential candidates pick at an opponent trying for an advantage in the public eye. When they object to Jesus eating with tax collectors and sinners, Jesus responds that he had come as a doctor to heal the sin-sick; no wonder he spent time with sinners.

Parable of the Wine Skins St. James Lutheran Church. What does the parable about the old patch being sewn onto new wine skins mean? 1 following 6 answers 6.

This week's passage continues the Pharisees' criticism: 'John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking' (5:33). The implication is that Jesus and his followers aren't as spiritual as John the Baptist and the Pharisees.

Fasting in the Bible and Jesus' Day (5:33) So Jesus doesn't fast enough, the Pharisees say? We see fasting throughout the Bible as a minor theme.

Eddie Bauer Car Seat 22 740 Hpn Manual Transmission on this page. Moses, Elijah, Daniel, and Jesus all went through prolonged fasts as they sought God. Times of national calamity and personal bereavement sometimes called for fasting as a means of humbling oneself, mourning, and seeking God's mercy (Deuteronomy 9:18; Nehemiah 9:1; Esther 4:16; 1 Samuel 7:6; 31:13; 2 Samuel 1:12; 3:35; 12:16, 21-23; Psalm 35:13; Jeremiah 36:6; Daniel 6:18; 9:1-3). At least once a year on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the Jews would fast, or 'afflict their souls.' (Leviticus 16:29-31; 23:27-29; Numbers 29:7). The would also fast at the New Year, Rosh Hashanah.

Some people would fast regularly week by week. Download Randomwalktrading Rar on this page. We learn from this passage that regular fasting was the practice of John's disciples (5:33). The Prophetess Anna fasted regularly (Luke 2:37), as did Cornelius the Gentile Centurion in Antioch (Acts 10:30 in some texts). Paul, too, may have practiced regular fasting, though this isn't entirely clear (2 Corinthians 6:5; 11:27). But the Pharisees certainly DID practice fasting, often proudly (Matthew 6:16-18). They fasted twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays (Luke 18:12).[1] We're conditioned to think of all Pharisees as hypocrites, but that's certainly an overstatement. Of course, many Pharisees WERE hypocrites, with exterior practices that masked a selfish heart.

But doubtless there were many sincere Pharisees that fasted and obeyed the oral law as unto the Lord, such as Nicodemus. They were sincere, but encumbered by a great weight of legal minutiae which composed much of their religious practice. The Bridegroom and His Guests (5:34-35) The Pharisees who contrasted Jesus' and his disciples 'eating and drinking' with John the Baptist's and the Pharisees practice of fasting, however, were more interested in putting Jesus down rather than making a sincere inquiry. Jesus answers with a word picture. 'Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them?' For the wedding in Jesus' day, the bridegroom and his family were expected to put on the celebration (John 2:9-10), not the bride's family as in our American custom.

The groom would go to the bride's home to fetch her and her attendants and friends, and the couple would lead them in a procession to the groom's house (reflected in the Parable of the Ten Virgins, Matthew 25:1-13) where the celebration would take place. Though the consummation would take place that night, the party might go on for as long as a week with friends and family who had traveled some distance to attend. Jesus is saying, though not openly, just as you don't fast while the bridegroom's hosts the wedding celebration, neither should my disciples fast while I am ushering in the Kingdom of God. It is a time for celebration, not for mourning. Then he adds, darkly, 'But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast' (5:35). Jesus knew that his crucifixion and death lay ahead and refers to it here.