{"id":577,"date":"2015-02-20T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/forbiblestudynerds\/?p=577"},"modified":"2015-02-13T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:30:05","slug":"matthew-914-17-jesus-questioned-about-fasting-symbolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/forbiblestudynerds\/2015\/02\/matthew-914-17-jesus-questioned-about-fasting-symbolism.html","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 9:14-17; Jesus Questioned About Fasting (Symbolism)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNeither do men pour new wine into old wineskins\u2026\u201d<\/em> (Matthew 9:17).<\/p>\n

When Jesus made this comparison statement, it was more than just an explanatory reference of common daily wisdom. In this little allegory, \u201cnew wine\u201d represented Jesus himself, causing a conflation of Jewish history and messianic expectations that would\u2019ve been both understandable and excitingly new to his hearers.<\/p>\n

In an Old Testament context, new wine is an \u201cimage of sustenance and life… [and] due to its close relationship to the ongoing life of the community, wine becomes, in association with grain and oil, a technical term for the covenant blessings promised by God to Israel.\u201d (For reference, see Isaac\u2019s blessing over Jacob in Genesis 27:28, as well as the covenant blessings and curses mentioned in Deuteronomy 28:39, 51, Joel 1:10, and Hosea 2:21-22, 9:2.)<\/p>\n

In other words, by identifying himself symbolically as the \u201cnew wine,\u201d Jesus was telling his hearers that he was not only bringing a new covenant for God\u2019s people, he was also fulfilling God\u2019s historical, unbreakable covenant promises of the past. From this moment forward, Jesus himself would be their \u201csustenance and life,\u201d and the complete embodiment of all God\u2019s promises and blessings intended for Israel.<\/p>\n

Heady stuff\u2014and an image that was not likely lost on those who heard Jesus speak of \u201cnew wine\u201d this day.<\/p>\n

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Works Cited<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[DBI, 953]<\/p>\n

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