Mark 2:19-22

With the coming of Jesus Christ the Old Testament was fulfilled. In order to understand the infilling of the Holy Spirit in man it required a whole new way of seeing and understanding. What was once the spiritual represented by the physical was now the physical representation of the Spiritual. Christ within us in the person of the Holy Spirit allowed God to be made known to the masses in and through us. As believers our actions presented the Trinity to the world. This new wine of the everlasting Covenant required  a whole new paradigm for CHRISTians. The traditions of man needed to pass away and the still, small voice of God needed to be heard in each individual believer.

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.

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.”

²⁰ At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 

John 14:20

¹⁹ What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. ²⁰ Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one. ²¹ Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. ²² But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. ²³ But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. ²⁴ Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. ²⁵ But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 

Galatians 3:19–25