The parable of the garment and the wineskins:Jesus told them the parable of a new garment and the wineskins. He told them that ‘No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment and no one puts wine into old wineskins, if he does the new wine will burst the skins and the skins will be destroyed, for they wouldn’t match. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and no one after drinking old wine desires new for he says the old is good. This parable was symbolic in that; -Jesus used the new garment and new wineskins to represent Christianity, while the old garment and old wineskins represent Judaism. -Jesus taught that Christianity and Judaism were in conflict. -That Christianity does not only concern itself with the outward observance or the law but with the inner heart. -That Christianity is greater than Judaism -For some people it may be difficult to leave up the old ways
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