They were considered turncoats against their own people. It all started because Jesus purposely found a Jewish man who worked to collect taxes for Rome.
The quick answer is that Jesus was drawing a contrast between the Old Covenant (the Law of Moses, which demanded painstaking performance in order to achieve a level of righteousness) with the New Covenant of salvation by grace through faith. And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ” (Luke 5:27-39) But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. Then He spoke a parable to them: “ No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. Then they said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”Īnd He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them then they will fast in those days.” I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, “Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” And there were a great number of tax collectors and others who sat down with them. Then Levi gave Him a great feast in his own house. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he left all, rose up, and followed Him. “After these things He (Jesus) went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. Jim – Let’s start by looking at the passage, starting with the banquet at Levi’s house –
As hard as I strain to understand this parable, I feel I’m missing something – or wind up craving a really mellow Cabernet! 🙂 Q – In Luke 5:33-39, Jesus offers the wineskins parable when asked about fasting.
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