I’ve always heard the Pharisees were the old wine skins who do not believe Jesus’s teaching, and tax collectors and sinners are the new wine skins. This verse ties back to 2:17. Hope this helps!
I have a question…Jesus spoke in parables and usually explains them or helps to understand them but I am a little unsure of what He was saying when He spoke of how you don’t sew new cloth to an old tear or put new wine in old wine skins. Can someone help me understand this better?
I have always been confused here too. But I think it has something to do with the sabbath, the disciples and not fasting. However I am not positive how they connect.
The John Macarthur “Grace To You” website had this to share which helped me understand… ‘Jesus brought a new internal gospel of repentance and forgiveness by grace that cannot be mixed with the old Judaism of tradition and self-righteous works, or with any other religion.’ That’s the mixing this passage refers to… Not possible. Salvation is by faith alone –Gods grace!
Mark 2:17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
I love that Jesus wasn’t there to be with other believers, but to bring the lost home! What an amazing God!
In numbers we see Aaron and Moses speaking on behalf of the people-making atonement for their sins when the plague hits (and so many other instances). the priests have this authority to ask God, on behalf of the People, for forgiveness.
Then you see the Pharisees astonished that Jesus was able to forgive this lame mans sins, because who is he to have this authority?
Jesus is our high priest, stepping in when the plague of sin is on us. His sacrifice has saved and forgiven us and kept us from eternal death. These truths and reminders never grow old.
The old testament reading is very profound. It says they “became insolent”…”they came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “you have gone too far”. Wow! Breath taking to have such boldness, that is a self-righteous and irrational boldness, against God himself! After the earth swallows up the direct perpetrators, including their entire households, it says the Israelites were still grumbling the next day saying “you have killed the Lord’s people”. Obviously no remorse & no repentance taking place. Remaining in sin, and becoming rebellious seems to have clouded their judgement greatly! I thought about our modern day rebellion version. We are not that much different. Grumbling too often, questioning or not talking to God, choosing our own path, and the list can be long… Personally, very much convicted!
Mk 2:9-11 “Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven’; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your pallet and walk’? But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, “I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home.” Jesus didn’t use miracles as a publicity stunt. He used physical demonstrations of power to illustrate His spiritual power and authority.
I love this chapter of mark where Jesus relates his disciples not fasting to David and his followers eating priestly bread. At church I learned that these two stories together show how Jesus is moving toward his kingship. Like David who was chased by… I forget who, Jesus is persecuted by the Pharisees, but He is the rightful King!
That is great, Gabrielle! What really hit me was Jesus interpretation of the Sabbath. His new reign reveals what has been behind the Old Testament veil; the Sabbath was designed as a blessing to man to yield abundant life, and therefore was not something that was designed to yield harm at its cost.
I’ve always heard the Pharisees were the old wine skins who do not believe Jesus’s teaching, and tax collectors and sinners are the new wine skins. This verse ties back to 2:17. Hope this helps!
I have a question…Jesus spoke in parables and usually explains them or helps to understand them but I am a little unsure of what He was saying when He spoke of how you don’t sew new cloth to an old tear or put new wine in old wine skins. Can someone help me understand this better?
I have always been confused here too. But I think it has something to do with the sabbath, the disciples and not fasting. However I am not positive how they connect.
The John Macarthur “Grace To You” website had this to share which helped me understand… ‘Jesus brought a new internal gospel of repentance and forgiveness by grace that cannot be mixed with the old Judaism of tradition and self-righteous works, or with any other religion.’ That’s the mixing this passage refers to… Not possible. Salvation is by faith alone –Gods grace!
Mark 2:17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
I love that Jesus wasn’t there to be with other believers, but to bring the lost home! What an amazing God!
In numbers we see Aaron and Moses speaking on behalf of the people-making atonement for their sins when the plague hits (and so many other instances). the priests have this authority to ask God, on behalf of the People, for forgiveness.
Then you see the Pharisees astonished that Jesus was able to forgive this lame mans sins, because who is he to have this authority?
Jesus is our high priest, stepping in when the plague of sin is on us. His sacrifice has saved and forgiven us and kept us from eternal death. These truths and reminders never grow old.
Wow, thank you for this connection!
Thank u, Reylena! This is exactly what spoke to me as I read this passage.
The old testament reading is very profound. It says they “became insolent”…”they came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “you have gone too far”. Wow! Breath taking to have such boldness, that is a self-righteous and irrational boldness, against God himself! After the earth swallows up the direct perpetrators, including their entire households, it says the Israelites were still grumbling the next day saying “you have killed the Lord’s people”. Obviously no remorse & no repentance taking place. Remaining in sin, and becoming rebellious seems to have clouded their judgement greatly! I thought about our modern day rebellion version. We are not that much different. Grumbling too often, questioning or not talking to God, choosing our own path, and the list can be long… Personally, very much convicted!
Mk 2:9-11 “Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven’; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your pallet and walk’? But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, “I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home.” Jesus didn’t use miracles as a publicity stunt. He used physical demonstrations of power to illustrate His spiritual power and authority.
I love this chapter of mark where Jesus relates his disciples not fasting to David and his followers eating priestly bread. At church I learned that these two stories together show how Jesus is moving toward his kingship. Like David who was chased by… I forget who, Jesus is persecuted by the Pharisees, but He is the rightful King!
That is great, Gabrielle! What really hit me was Jesus interpretation of the Sabbath. His new reign reveals what has been behind the Old Testament veil; the Sabbath was designed as a blessing to man to yield abundant life, and therefore was not something that was designed to yield harm at its cost.