Daily Bread

1. Jesus is the bridegroom (33-35)

Jesus had attended a great banquet, and he and his disciples ate with everyone else. This planted a question in the minds of the Pharisees and teachers of the law. Everyone else's disciples fasted-why not Jesus' disciples? Jesus explained that he is the bridegroom. He came to be bound to sinners, to bear their sins and bear them to the kingdom of God. It is time to be joyful because of him. In the same way Jesus would not ne here long. He would be crucified at the hands of those who now confronted him. He would be taken, and they would mourn and fast with true sorrow.

2. A new garment and new wine (36-39)

Jesus taught them through a parable that new life had come. He did not come to fix something old, or to patch up their religion. He came to give life and make new. In order to accept the new teaching, we must receive new life. That can only happen when we accept Jesus as our bridegroom and live as new garments and new wineskins.