![]() ![]() So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. Jesus taught that mature Christianity was expressed this way: I think this is a vital part of understanding the passage. Also, John 16:12 provides a delicious tension: What else would Jesus have said if only his hearers had been able to bear it? We can only know by consulting the Holy Spirit (in the next verse).īut Henry’s conclusion is way off: Jesus did not teach that Christianity was a series of hard duties, from which beginners are exempted! Far from it. I actually agree with Henry up to the last sentence.ġ Corinthians 3:2 and Hebrews 5:12 both talk about stages of growth for the Christian, using the metaphor of breast milk and solid food. Young beginners in religion must not be put upon the hardest duties at first, lest they be discouraged. Christ would not speak to his disciples that which they could not then bear, John 16:12. 5:12), so must the work be that is cut out for them. Christians ought to be considered: as the food provided for them must be such as is proper for their age (1 Cor. … but that can’t be so, because Jesus says, “The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.” (Matt 9:15, Mark 2:20, Luke 5:35). The old patterns of fasting are inappropriate for the fullness of the kingdom that has now arrived. Commentator opinions about Wineskinsīefore we begin, here are some of the commentator opinions on what Jesus was supposedly talking about: Reformation Study Bibleġ. It’s a strange thing to say, isn’t it? So strange, in fact, that all the explanations I have found of this passage all seem to create teachings which contradict Scripture in various important ways. – Matt 9:16-17, Mark 2:21-22, Luke 5:36-37 (with some minor differences between the three reports). But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. So I’ve worked it through below, and proposed a meaning which does not contradict other parts of the Bible. Tell me what you think. Whereas there are many teachers who profess to know what the parable means, in every case I found, the teaching produced something which contradicts other parts of the New Testament. Most theories produce problematic answers I didn’t know the answer, and a quick overview of the commentaries revealed that nobody else does either. Nobody seems to understand what the wineskins are about!Ī friend asked me what Jesus was talking about when he mentioned sewing patches onto garments, and putting wine into wineskins.
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