PARABLE 18 OF 22

New Cloth and New Wineskins

Mattityahu 9:14–17
PARABLE · TO ALL WHO LISTENED

No one patches an old garment with unshrunk cloth, and no one pours new wine into old wineskins.

THE PARABLE

14Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”15Yeshua said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.16No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.17Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

WHAT YESHUA IS SAYING

Yeshua is not patching the old religion — He is bringing a new covenant the old structures cannot contain. Not abolishing Torah, but fulfilling it; bringing new wine that needs new skins. Trying to fit Him inside old categories breaks both.

ECHOES IN THE TANAKH
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