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The Savior had come to be with them and live with His people. The disciples were not required to fast because their teacher, their rabbi, was the ultimate authority. Jesus, though, being the Word of God and understanding it fully, had no need or desire to obey man’s religious customs.
PARABLE OF THE PATCH AND WINE SKINS IN SCRIPTURE FULL
The law only required that the people fast on the day of Atonement, which this day was not. The Pharisees added this feast, sometimes up to twice a week of full fasting. Thus, on this particular day, the Pharisees had set this day apart for fasting. The God who had once tabernacled with the people was now a far-off sight that the people were unable to approach. Rules were tightened or added so as not to even come close to rebelling against God. More and more, as the religious leaders of the day, they tightened the noose of sin and unrighteousness around the necks of the Israelites by making holiness even further off and God less and less approachable. The problem arose when they began to teach and require things beyond the scripture. They memorized the Torah, knew it forwards and backwards, and studied to understand their glorious God greater and greater. The Pharisees had, at first, sought to be the primary teachers and instructors of the truth of God. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.” ( Mark 2:21-22, NIV) This conversation came on the heels of Jesus being questioned by the Pharisees as to why the disciples were not fasting. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. One of the first comparisons that Mark includes in his Gospel record comes in the form of explaining wine and wineskins. In Mark’s Gospel, many of these parables are recorded as a part of the Gospel record. In understanding the truth, the people could apply it to their lives and grow in their faith. The parables allowed the complex, unfathomable truths of God to be simplified and understood by all people to bring them closer to God. Throughout the Gospels Jesus employed parables, or stories, to communicate the complex truths of the nature of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, and what faith looks like expressed in the world.