Tag: Wineskins

  • Jesus turned the Water into Wine

    (John 2:1-12) This section of scripture is interesting for a number of reasons. It is a well known piece of scripture as many have discussed it, written about it and there are even songs about it. This is described as the first of the miracles that Jesus performed by the Apostle John, and it is…

  • New Wine and Old Wineskins

    (Luke 5:33-39) This section begins with a discussion about fasting, which I have covered previously elsewhere. The second part of the scripture then looks at the parable of putting new wine into old wineskins and the potential damage that can cause. We often here about people who are set in their ways. There are sayings…

  • Old and New Wineskins

    (Mark 2:18-22) In this section of scripture the people approach Jesus over fasting. The disciples of John the Baptist and the Pharisees promoted fasting, but Jesus disciples were not fasting. I have already covered the issue of fasting in an earlier post, which you can read here. So in this post I will focus on…

  • Fasting in the New Covenant

    (Matthew 9:14-17) Jesus is approached by the disciples of John the Baptist and asked why his disciples did not fast like they and the Pharisees did. Jesus then used this teaching to show that the New Covenant was a new teaching and fasting under the New Covenant was quite a different matter to the Old…