Mark 2:19-22

The parameters of the New Testament with the Holy Spirit within believers did not fit the box of the Old Testament with its man made rules and the Holy Spirit guiding him from the outside. In order to experience the whole of God believers must be transformed precept upon precept into the image of Jesus Christ. This is hard to explain and even harder to absorb but for those who continue pursuing Him to the end nothing will be impossible.

Mark records only four of Jesus’ parables—two of which he includes here. The comparison implies that the newness of His message, and of the new covenant to follow, cannot fit into the old molds of Judaism. The OT was preparation for the NT.

Mark 2:19-22

¹⁹ And Jesus said to them,  “Can the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. ²⁰ But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days. ²¹ No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse. ²² And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”